Facebook can stop working in Europe

The basic Facebook application and also the Instagram can be removed from Europe, reports “Business Insider”.

The company has submitted a voluntary statement under oath with facts written at the Irish Supreme Court on September 10th.

Facebook has challenged the preliminary order issued earlier this month by Ireland's private data monitoring institution, the Data Protection Commission (DPC), which had threatened Facebook by transferring EU data to the US from privacy concern.

If the transfer of US data is fully prohibited, it appears to have proposed The DPS, it is not clear how the applicant, under these circumstances, could offer Facebook and Instagram services to the EU”, Yvonne Cunane, head of Facebook data protection in Ireland, adding that Facebook has 410 million active users in Europe, said.

A Facebook spokesman has denied that this poses danger of EU withdrawal.

“Facebook is not threatening to withdraw from Europe. The legal documents handed down to the Supreme Court of Ireland constitute a simple reality that Facebook, and many other businesses, and organisations and services, are supported by the transfer of data from the EU to the US so that they can operate”, the spokesman has said. The lack of international data safely and legally would be financial damage, just when we're looking to recover from COVID-19”.