Facebook sues Irish privacy watchdog over data-transfer spat

Bloomberg reports:

Facebook Inc. sued the Irish data protection watchdog in a bid to stop a proposed order it warns could curb transfers of vast amounts of commercial data from the European Union to the U.S. by thousands of companies.

The social network giant said it sought a judicial review of the Irish Data Protection Commission’s preliminary view that it may have to halt trans-Atlantic data transfers using the most commonly used EU tool still available to firms.

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