I love it when the Government screws with Fakebook...

 And it doesn't matter to me 

which Government does it. 

 

 

Facebook owner Meta Platforms should be fined for continuing to shuttle Europeans’ personal information to the United States in violation of a landmark EU court ruling, Norway’s data protection authority has told its peer regulators.

“There would be little or no incentive to act in accordance” with EU data transfer laws if regulators don't impose a fine on the U.S. tech giant, Norway's authority Datatilsynet said.

The authority is one of a handful of European regulators responding to the Irish Data Protection Commission's draft decision from July that orders Meta’s to cease its use of a legal instrument called standard contractual clauses (SCCs) to transfer data across the Atlantic - everything from family pictures to payroll information.

The Irish draft decision implemented a 2020 court ruling in which the European Court of Justice nixed an EU-U.S. data transfer deal called Privacy Shield and tightened requirements to use other data transfer mechanisms like SCCs because they would expose Europeans to intrusive U.S. surveillance.

 

 

Cut through the legal mumbo-jumbo and get to the heart of the matter. What they're saying, in essence, is that none of the stuff anyone posts on Fakebook in Europe can be 'transferred to' or held on to or used any any way by Fakebook's servers and algorithms here in the States. This could be catastrophic for FakeBook. One of two things can happen - they can shut down their operations in Europe like they've threatened to do (which you know will never, ever happen) or they can set up a duplicate network and system in Europe  that can only handle traffic in those countries, and cannot be co-mingled with anything anywhere else.

 

This is an absolute gut shot to Fakebook, and I for one am happy as fuck it's happening. Zuckerdick's fucked with his users long enough. Imagine what would happen to his stock price if he actually did shut the sites down in all of Europe. BOOM - instant toilet paper. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy...