The invalidation this summer by the European Court of Justice of the Privacy Shield, this agreement which secured the transfer of data between the European Union and the United States, produced a first major shock.
The Irish data protection gendarme informed Facebook's European headquarters at the end of August that he was investigating the legality of the social network's data transfer procedures, the
Wall Street Journal
revealed
.
A preliminary decision of the Irish CNIL, sent to Facebook, would suggest that the latter may not be in the nails, which the social network publicly disputes.
Facebook has three weeks to respond in writing to the Irish regulator's comments and questions.
The latter will then decide whether to impose sanctions.
It could also force Facebook to no longer send data of European citizens to the United States until a new agreement, called "Privacy Shield Plus", has not been concluded between
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