Court grants Meta short stay on DPC decision to suspend data transfer to US

That decision, delivered on May 22 and accompanied by a record €1.2bn fine, saw the American company given five months to delete all the data it holds on users

Last month, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd €1.2 billion and ordered it to cease unlawful processing and storage of personal data of millions of European Economic Area (EU countries along with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) Facebook users. File picture: Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie

Facebook’s owner, Meta, has been granted a short stay by the High Court on a decision that it must suspend the transfer and storage of user data from Europe to the US.

Last month, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd €1.2 billion and ordered it to cease unlawful processing and storage of personal data of millions of European Economic Area (EU countries along with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) Facebook users.