Meta May Leave EU Market Over Privacy Regulations
Meta is threatening to leave the EU market if it’s not allowed to share EU user data with its US-based data centers. The EU ruled in 2020 that using US cloud providers was a violation of the GDPR. Because they are often required to hand over data to intelligence agencies, US companies are not capable of being compliant with the privacy protections the GDPR provides EU citizens. While many companies, on both sides of the Atlantic, have ignored the ruling, the Austrian Data Protection Authority recently ruled that it is illegal for…
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