The penalty released Monday is the latest salvo in a decadelong case sparked by U.S. cybersnooping fears.
last year on a reworked Privacy Shield that Meta could use, but the pact is awaiting a decision from European officials on whether it adequately protects data privacy.
The Irish watchdog said it gave Meta five months to stop sending European user data to the U.S. and six months to bring its data operations into compliance “by ceasing the unlawful processing, including storage, in the U.S.” of European users’ personal data transferred in violation of the bloc’s privacy rules.
“Meta plans to rely on the new deal for transfers going forward, but this is likely not a permanent fix,” Schrems said in a statement. “Unless U.S. surveillance laws gets fixed, Meta will likely have to keep EU data in the EU.”
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Meta fined a record $1.3 billion over E.U. user data transfers to the U.S.The decision links back to a case brought by a privacy campaigner who alleged that the framework for transferring E.U. citizen data to America did not protect Europeans from U.S. surveillance.
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