'Meta cannot just blackmail the EU into giving up its data protection standards,' a European lawmaker said on Tuesday.
The tech giant said in its on Thursday that it may choose to pull some of its products in Europe if EU rules are enacted to stop it sending data back to the US.
Ireland's data protection watchdog warned Meta in September 2020 that the legal mechanism it uses to share EU user data with its US servers, called Standard Contractual Clauses ,Meta said in its annual report that it's expecting a final ruling in the first half of 2022 on whether it can continue to use SCCs.
"If a new transatlantic data transfer framework is not adopted and we are unable to continue to rely on SCCs or rely upon other alternative means of data transfers from Europe to the United States, we will likely be unable to offer a number of our most significant products and services, including Facebook and Instagram, in Europe," Meta wrote in its annual report., a data-sharing arrangement between the EU and the US.
The ruling on Privacy Shield upheld SCCs as a potential transfer mechanism with other countries, but said that those countries' data protection laws must be in line with EU regulations. The watchdog's concern was that US data surveillance may be too intrusive to qualify,Axel Voss, a member of the European Parliament, on Tuesday accused Meta of trying to strong arm Europe into weakening its data protection laws.
The spokesperson added:"Like other companies, we have followed European rules and rely on Standard Contractual Clauses, and appropriate data safeguards, to operate a global service. Fundamentally, businesses need clear, global rules to protect transatlantic data flows over the long term, and like more than 70 other companies across a wide range of industries, we are closely monitoring the potential impact on our European operations as these developments progress.
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