A US regulatory filing from Meta reiterates a possible suspension of EU services for Facebook and Instagram users should an EU-US data transfer agreement not be finalised in the near future. Meta said that the lack of a new transfer framework and the inability to rely on standard contractual clauses (SCCs) would "materially and adversely affect" its operations. This comes as EU data protection authorities (DPAs) deliberate a draft decision from Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) that would halt Meta's use of SCCs to facilitate EU-US transfers.
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