Meta Says It Might Have to Pull Facebook and Instagram in Europe Over Data Transfer Rules

Meta Says It Might Have to Pull Facebook and Instagram in Europe Over Data Transfer Rules
A woman holds a smartphone with the Facebook logo in front of a Meta logo in this illustration picture taken on Oct. 28, 2021. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters
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Meta, formerly known as Facebook, might have to entirely stop operating Instagram and Facebook in Europe, the company warned in its filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The EU has strict data protection requirements regarding the transfer of personal data from Europe to the United States and in 2016, the EU and United States agreed to a framework for data transferred between continents, called the Privacy Shield.

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