Meta threatens to leave Europe
The company Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram, threatened to withdraw their applications from the European Union if they do not allow them to transfer their data
Facebook’s parent company, Meta, threatened to close services such as its social networks Facebook and Instagram in the European Union (EU) if community regulations continue to prevent it from transferring data from its European users to the United States in the future.
This was indicated by the American company in a report presented to the United States Security and Exchange Commission, in which it addressed the problems faced by its advertising business at the international level.
In the case of the EU, in July 2020, a ruling by the EU Court of Justice (CJEU) annulled the ‘Privacy Shield’ regulation, which until now had regulated the transfer of user data between countries.
With this, the Community General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD) came into force in this regard, in force since 2018 and which prohibits companies from processing the data of European citizens outside the EU.
“If we are unable to transfer data between countries and regions in which we operate, or if we have restrictions on sharing data between our products and services, this could affect our ability to provide our services, the way we provide our services, or our ability to target ads”, Meta now said in the report.
Mark Zuckerberg’s company hopes to be able to reach a new agreement with the community institutions in this year 2022 with which the transfer of data between both parties will be legal again. If not, it has threatened to shut down some of its most popular services.
K. Tovar
Source: Xataka
