Tag: Meta

Facebook Faces EU Data Freeze

The decision by regulators will prevent Facebook from transferring user data from the EU to America and may potentially force the U.S. to conclude a data protection agreement with Brussels.

EU Fines Meta for Failing to Respect Data Privacy Legislation

The company has three months to comply, but Meta has announced its intention to appeal both on the merits and the fines. In its defence, Zuckerberg’s company argues that there is not enough “regulatory certainty” about data protection.

Facebook To Be Expelled From Europe?

The Irish Data Protection Commission took the unprecedented decision to block all data transfers between Europe and the United States.

New EU-U.S. Data-Sharing Pact

The Privacy Shield, struck down by the European Court of Justice in 2020, has now been replaced by a new data-sharing agreement between the U.S. and EU. How its implementation will ultimately fare, and whether it will arouse the scrutiny of European courts, remains to be seen.

Facebook’s ‘Two Minutes Hate’

Facebook gives itself the luxury of offering its “two minutes of hate” to its subscribers, telling them, in its great wisdom, which enemies are allowed.

Meta Warns it May Pull Facebook and Instagram from EU

As services like social media platforms become indispensable to the ordinary operations of businesses, we face the prospect of a future in which lawmakers are dictated to by foreign companies.