RTÉ Courts Reporter
A decision by the Data Protection Commissioner that Facebook should suspend the transfer of personal data to its US parent company would have devastating consequences for the business and jeopardise the service for hundreds of millions of users, the High Court has heard.
Lawyers for Facebook Ireland said there was total absence of an investigatory stage before the DPC jumped the gun and issued a preliminary draft decision earlier this year.
In August the DPC informed Facebook it had opened an inquiry of its own volition under the provisions of GDPR in light of a judgment from the Court of Justice of the European Union handed down last July.