UK Facebook customers will be moved over to US-based user agreements
It ll happen next year after Brexit and follows similar announcement by Google
Privacy experts fear it could expose users to surveillance by US intelligence
Tory MP Damian Collins said: Although the legal protections for UK citizens data will still apply, how easy will they be to enforce when it is being processed in US?
European Union s digital privacy laws are far stricter than those in the US
(Pocket-lint) - Facebook will switch all UK accounts to US jurisdiction in light of the country s withdrawal from the European Union.
That means UK Facebook users will be switched to US agreements from 2021 and overseen by the social media giant s California headquarters rather than Ireland as is currently the case.
And accounts may no longer benefit from the stricter privacy laws enforced by the EU. Like other companies, Facebook has had to make changes to respond to Brexit and will be transferring legal responsibilities and obligations for UK users from Facebook Ireland to Facebook Inc, said the company to Reuters.
To avoid EU privacy rules, Facebook to move UK users to California terms
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There will be no change to the privacy controls or the services Facebook offers to people in the UK, the companys UK arm said.
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A Twitter spokesman said its UK users will continue to be handled by the company s Dublin office.
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There will be no change to the privacy controls or the services Facebook offers to people in the UK, the companys UK arm said.
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Facebook to move UK users to California terms
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Facebook is moving its UK users them out of their current relationship with Facebook s Irish unit
Facebook will shift all its users in the UK into user agreements with the corporate headquarters in California, moving them out of their current relationship with Facebook s Irish unit and out of reach of Europe s privacy laws.
The change takes effect next year and follows a similar move announced in February by Google.
Those companies and others have European head offices in Dublin, and the UK s exit from the EU will change its legal relationship with Ireland, which remains in the European Union.