Facebook's European data transfers to the US set for block

12h | Antony Savvas
Facebook could be prevented from sending the data it generates in Europe back to the US for processing, after the latest judgement on its data handling.
Ireland's High Court has been dealing with a case stemming from concerns in the European Union that US government surveillance does not respect the privacy rights of EU citizens, when their personal data is sent to the US for commercial use - including targeted advertising around Facebook services.
Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) - which is Facebook's lead regulator in the European Union - launched an inquiry last August and issued a provisional order that the main mechanism Facebook uses to transfer EU user data to the US “cannot in practice be used”.

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