AmericaSpeaks TheVoiceOfJoyce The EU is serious about the privacy of data transferred from the EU to the US. Because Meta has no firewalls to protect European Data, they have been singled out for a $1.3 Billion fine under the EU GDPR’s regulations. Meta correctly states, their data transfer is the same as other Social Media platforms and they’ve been given 5 months to comply. Realistically, it’s the US Congress’ responsibility to change Section 230 of the FCC Decency Fairness Act, making Social Media Platforms responsible for 3 rd party content. Why should a Corporation decide who sees our data? Why isn’t our data private? Why can’t we opt out of corporate agreements and determine who sees our data? Why can’t American privacy be protected by our version of the GDPR?

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www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/22/facebook-fined-mishandling-user-information-ireland-eu-meta

Facebook’s owner, Meta, has been fined a record €1.2bn (£1bn) and ordered to suspend the transfer of user data from the EU to the US.

The fine – equivalent to $1.3bn – imposed by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), which regulates Meta across the EU, is a record for a breach of the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The suspension of Facebook data transfers is not immediate and Meta has been given five months to implement it.

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The DPC punishment relates to a legal challenge brought by an Austrian privacy campaigner, Max Schrems, over concerns resulting from the Edward Snowden revelations that European users’ data is not sufficiently protected from US intelligence agencies when it is transferred across the Atlantic.

Meta has also been given six months to stop “the unlawful processing, including storage, in the US” of personal EU data already transferred across the Atlantic, meaning that user data will need to be removed from Facebook servers.

The ruling does not affect data transfers at Meta’s other main platforms, Instagram and WhatsApp. Meta said it would appeal against the decision and seek a stay on the data transfer order.

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