Facebook's EU-US data transfer mechanism 'cannot be used'

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Irish regulator says.

Facebook's EU-US data transfer mechanism 'cannot be used'
The key mechanism used by Facebook to transfer data from the European Union to the United States "cannot in practice be used" for such transfers, according to Ireland's Data Protection Commission, Facebook said on Wednesday. The US social media giant said in a blog post that it ...

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