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| Facebook fears that its platform will be suspended in the European Union |
The Sunday Business Post cited court documents that the newspaper believes Facebook questions data transmission restrictions imposed by the Irish Supreme Court.
Facebook told the Supreme Court of Ireland that if the regulator froze its data transfers, it wouldn't know how its services operate in the European Union.
The US social media giant said last week that the main European Union regulator, the Irish Data Protection Committee (IDPC), made a preliminary ruling that its mechanism for moving data from the European Union to the United States could enter. They cannot be used in practice.
Facebook requested a temporary suspension of the case and it was frozen after the judicial review of the case by the Supreme Court of Ireland, which will hear the case in November.
Yvonne Cunnane, Facebook's data protection and data protection officer and Irish partner attorney, said in a written affidavit filed with the court regarding the freeze order: It is unclear how business will continue in the European Union once Irish regulations are implemented.
The newspaper quoted an affidavit as saying: Facebook does not yet know how to continue providing Facebook and Instagram services in the European Union in this regard.
Facebook said in a September 9 post that this was the first time the Irish regulator's investigation had confirmed this: We are relying on a mechanism - under what is known as the Standard Contractual Clause Agreement (SCC) - to transfer data to countries outside of the UAE. European Union.
He added that the ban would have a profound effect on companies that rely on Standard Contractual Clause Agreements (SCCs).
The Irish investigation comes on the heels of a July European Court of Justice ruling on when the Standard Contractual Clause Agreement (SCC) can be legally enforceable.
The ruling was issued in response to EU concerns that the US surveillance system may not respect the privacy rights of EU citizens when sending their personal data to the US for commercial purposes.
Facebook is requesting judicial review of the Irish Data Protection Committee (IDPC) decision. Because it appears that the supervisory authority published its findings prior to the expected supervisory direction of the European Data Protection Committee.
Failure to fulfill Ireland's original request could result in a fine of up to 4% of Facebook's annual revenue, or about $ 2.8 billion.
Bloomberg reported earlier this month that Facebook had taken legal action against the Irish Data Protection Committee (IDPC) to block a proposed regulation that could prevent the company from transferring data from the European Union to the United States.