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Comment—Meta's data-transfer ban is historic for EU GDPR, but legal fight will be long and fierce

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Published on: 30 May 2023

Published by an MLex correspondent

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MLex: Meta Platforms’ social-media unit Facebook has received a final order to stop transferring personal data from the EU to the US in a historic EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (EU GDPR) enforcement decision. The case has ramifications for many thousands of businesses that send data or use the most popular technology and cloud platforms, who will anxiously watch the appeals process play out, the impact it has on EU-US talks over a new data transfers deal, and likely litigation by Meta to unpick the legality of regulators' dispute-resolution process that led (acrimoniously) to today's decision.

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