Facebook’s owner company Meta should be punished for the illegal transfer of personal data to the United States, Norway’s Data Protection Authority wrote in a letter to the Irish authorities.
When Meta transfers user data to the United States, they break the European privacy regulations, and that should lead to fines, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority concluded in a letter sent to the Irish authorities in July this year, the newspaper Morgenbladet writes, quoting Politico.
In the letter, which Morgenbladet has gained access to, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority refers to the so-called Schrems II judgment, handed down by the European Court of Justice in 2020.
This judgment concluded that European personal data was not sufficiently secured when transferred to the United States. Such a data transfer is, in practice, incompatible with complying with the GDPR regulations, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority concluded.
The Authority argued that if breaches of the regulations do not lead to concrete sanctions, companies will have few incentives to act in accordance with the EU’s privacy regulations.
In an email to Morgenbladet, Meta referred, via the communications agency Släger, to a statement the company gave to Politico on Monday. In it, Meta referred to the process of getting a new agreement between the EU and the US in place:
“We welcome the agreement on a new framework that can ensure the continued transfer of data across borders.”
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