A spokesman for Meta (formerly Facebook) said that the company does not want to leave the European market, but there were indeed “difficulties” in meeting the requirements of EU law.
About this he told in an interview with Gazeta.Ru.
“We have absolutely no desire or plan to leave Europe, but the reality is that Meta and many other companies, organizations and services rely on data transfer between the EU and the US to provide global services. Like other companies, we follow European rules and We rely on Standard Contractual Clauses and appropriate data protection measures to provide these services,” a Meta spokesperson explained.
He also added that businesses need clear, global rules to protect transatlantic data flows in the long term.
For now, Meta and over 70 other companies across a wide range of industries are closely monitoring “how this could potentially impact their European operations as the situation evolves.”
Earlier it became known that the company Meta is considering a possible termination of the social networks Facebook and Instagram in the EU. Such a scenario described in the company’s report to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. A new EU law requires companies that collect user data from citizens of European countries to store and process this data on European servers. However, Facebook and Instagram data are also processed on servers located in the United States.
