Europeans risk seeing social media services Facebook and Instagram shut down this summer, as Ireland';s privacy regulator doubled down on its order to stop the firm';s data flows to the United States.
The Irish Data Protection Commission on Thursday informed its counterparts in Europe that it will block Facebook-owner Meta from sending user data from Europe to the U.S. The Irish regulator';s draft decision cracks down on Meta';s last legal resort to
transfer large chunks of data to the U.S., after years of fierce court battles between the U.S. tech giant and European privacy activists.[...]
Meta has repeatedly warned that such a decision would shutter many of its services in Europe, including Facebook and Instagram.
Don';t threaten us with a good time, Zuck.
https://www.osnews.com/story/135064/europe-faces-facebook-blackout/
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