Facebook avoids a service shut down in Europe for now

Facebook avoids a service shut down in Europe for now

2 years ago
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https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/11/facebook-europe-shut-down-delay/

Facebook has avoided the risk of being forced to shut its service down in Europe this summer as a result of the latest twist in a long-running data protection complaint saga that relates to a clash between EU privacy and US surveillance law.

The delay — in what’s still widely expected to be a suspension order to Meta, Facebook’s parent company, to stop illegal data exports — follows objections to a draft decision by its lead data protection authority by other regional DPAs who have been reviewing it.