In a court filing in Dublin, Ireland, Facebook says if a decision by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission is upheld, the company would have no choice but to abandon Europe because of its bad business practices.
If the decision is upheld, “it is not clear to [Facebook] how, in those circumstances, it could continue to provide the Facebook and Instagram services in the EU,” Yvonne Cunnane, who is Facebook Ireland’s head of data protection and associate general counsel, wrote in a sworn affidavit.
The decision Facebook’s referring to is a preliminary order handed down last month to stop the transfer of data about European customers to servers in the U. S., over concerns about U. S. government surveillance of the data.
Check It Out: Mark Zuckeberg Fights European Regulators
Can we get that here too? Please? Can we make Zuckerberg move to Russia or China?
Hyperbole much? they are threatening to abandon, what a quarter billion users rather than build a data centre in the EU? I don’t think so. It’s so much breathless posturing.
« It’s so much breathless posturing. »
And exaggerating his and Facebook’s importance. Sooner or later someone is going to come up with a viable alternative, one that is better behaved.