Use of Meta tracking tools found to breach EU rules on data transfers

Austria’s data protection authority has found that use of Meta’s tracking technologies violated EU data protection law as personal data was transferred to the US where the information was at risk from US government surveillance. The finding flows from a swathe of complaints filed by European privacy rights group noyb, back in August 2020, which […]

Use of Meta tracking tools found to breach EU rules on data transfers by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

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