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Alongside the developments in Europe, the Irish Data Protection Commission told Meta in August 2020 that it had provisionally concluded that the use of the model agreements was not in line with the GDPR.
Processing the European data on American servers therefore had to be suspended by IDPC. However, this was merely a preliminary conclusion so, in effect, no change came about.
The company went to court to stop the injunction, but judges ruled that IDPC’s investigation could continue.The watchdog’s final verdict is expected to be published in the first half of this year. Should IDPC indeed find that the model agreements are illegal, Meta may decide it is no longer feasible to offer some of its services across the EU.
Het lijkt me een schot voor de boeg in de rechtszaak van de Ierse IDPC.