Facebook launches court challenge of Irish watchdog over data transfers from EU to US
The Irish commission, Facebooks lead regulator in the EU, had begun an inquiry into the companys EU-US data transfers and suggested that a key mechanism used by the company for transatlantic data transfers cannot be used for EU-US data transfers, according to Facebook.
The social media giant believes the mechanism, Standard Contractual Clauses , was deemed valid by the European Court of Justice in July.
However, in the wake of that EU court ruling, the DPC sent Facebook a preliminary order to stop transferring data belonging to EU users to the US, the Wall Street Journal wrote earlier this week.
Facebook said that the DPC had told the company that a mechanism it uses to transfer data from the EU to the US cannot in practice be used.
Papers filed in the Irish High Court on Thursday show that Facebook Ireland has now initiated a judicial review of the DPCs preliminary order, according to local reports. The company is said to believe the order was made prematurely, without regulatory guidance about how to apply the European Court of Justices ruling.
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