By Reuters Staff
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland’s data regulator defended its provisional order to halt Facebook user data transfers to the United States from the European Union, telling the Irish High Court on Thursday such decisions were not typically subject to court oversight.
FILE PHOTO: General view of the Facebook logo at its EMEA headquarters at Grand Canal Square in the Docklands amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Dublin, Ireland, October 14, 2020. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, the EU’s lead regulator for Facebook, issued the order in August after Europe’s highest court ruled that a transatlantic data transfer framework known as Privacy Shield was invalid.