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Irish Data Protection Commission’s Decision Throws Use of Standard Contractual Clauses Into Doubt

On May 22, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission announced that it had imposed a €1.2 billion fine on Meta Platforms for violating the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation in its use of standard contractual clauses as a mechanism to transfer the personal data of Facebook users from the European Economic Area to the United States.

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