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Facebook Can t Block Order To Halt EU-US Data Transfers
Law360 (May 14, 2021, 8:26 PM EDT) Facebook on Friday was stopped from blocking an early-stage ruling from a European Union privacy regulator that may prevent the company from sending European users data to the U.S. in a case that could affect any company that serves consumers on both sides of the Atlantic.
In a decision that ran nearly 200 pages, Ireland s High Court threw out Facebook s appeal of an August draft order from the Irish Data Protection Commissioner that suggested that a widely used type of contract that the social network and other companies use to legally justify sending data from Europe to the U.S. cannot in practice be.
Microsoft outlines plan to store European cloud data in the EU
Engineering work to redesign the cloud has already started, according to the company
Tech companies are allowed to transfer data between the EU and USA using Standard Contractual Clauses
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Maxed out: Why Ireland is at the centre of a ‘Kafkaesque’ row over your data Activist Max Schrems has accused Helen Dixon of failing to hold Big Tech to account over the handling of EU citizens’ data. But the Data Protection Commissioner insists that her office is taking action 2nd May, 2021
Max Schrems bought a copy of Franz Kafka’s The Trial a couple of years after he began his crusade against how technology giants harvest and transfer the personal data of users around the globe. It was a prescient choice.
Schrems’ first complaint to the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) about Facebook’s handling of European citizens’ data was in 2011 and he has been tied up with the office since.