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“Ultimately, the invalidation of Privacy Shield in 2020 was caused by a fundamental conflict of law between the US government’s rules on access to data and the privacy rights of Europeans. It is a conflict that neither Meta nor any other business could resolve on its own.”
-Meta’s reaction statement to the decision on cross-border data flows
Story of the week: The week that celebrated the fifth anniversary of the GDPR also saw a historic decision and the largest administrative sanction issued so far. Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) has hit Meta, as anticipated by EURACTIV, with a record fine of €1.2 billion over transferring EU data to the United States in breach of the Schrems II ruling. Even more significantly, Meta has…
