Facebook Faces More Potential Privacy-Related Legal Issues in EU
Facebook continues to face pressure in the European Union over transferring data from customers there to the U.S. for processing.
Facebook continues to face pressure in the European Union over transferring data from customers there to the U.S. for processing.
Fortune reported that the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in Ireland will investigate a complaint by Austrian law student Max Schrems over the practice. Facebook’s European headquarters is in Dublin.
A similar court skirmish last year scuttled the Safe Harbor agreement between the U.S. and the European Commission, and according to Fortune, the Privacy Shield deal that replaced Safe Harbor is stricter, but there are loopholes.
Facebook and other companies are using a mechanism referred to as “standard contractual clauses”—also known as “model clauses” or “model contracts”—to continue transferring data from European users to the U.S.,
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