Facebook warns Information Security rules could Induce European shutdown

Expand / Facebook’s European headquarters in Dublin. (charge: Brian Lawless – PA Pictures / Getty)

Facebook has cautioned it might be made to pull from the European economy if European authorities push ahead with limitations on information sharing between the European Union and the USA.

Until this season, an arrangement named Privacy Shield enabled US technology businesses to transfer data easily between both jurisdictions. However, Europe’s greatest court nixed that agreement in July, asserting that US law prohibits strong protections against surveillance from the US authorities.

In the aftermath of that judgment, Ireland’s solitude regulator arranged Facebook to quit sending information on European customers into its US information centres. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) directs authorities of European privacy laws related to Facebook since Facebook’s official European headquarters will be in Dublin.