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

By Sam Clark ( May 22, 2023, 09:44 GMT | Comment) -- 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 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.It's quite a birthday: The week of the General Data Protection Regulation's fifth anniversary has seen the most consequential enforcement decision so far. Meta Platforms has been told by the Irish data watchdog that its social-media unit Facebook must suspend its transfers of personal data from the EU to the US....

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