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Facebook to shift data responsibility for UK users to US jurisdiction to ease Brexit pains

By Matthew Newman
  • 16 Dec 2020 11:56
  • 16 Dec 2020 11:56
Facebook has become the second US tech company after Google to respond to the complexities of Brexit by shifting responsibility for UK users' data away from the Irish data-protection authority and into US jurisdiction.
Facebook said the transfer will take effect in 2021 and the terms of service applicable to

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Matthew Newman

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Matthew Newman is a chief correspondent for MLex and writes about data protection, privacy, telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence. Matthew began his journalism career in 1991 in community newspapers. He worked as a reporter in Riga, Latvia in 1993 and then moved to Chicago where he covered local news. In 1995, he became a personal finance reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and was then transferred to Brussels in 1999. He specialized in EU regulatory affairs, including trade and telecom issues. He began covering competition for Bloomberg News as an EU court reporter in 2004. In 2010, he was named spokesman for Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner. In January 2012, he helped launch the commission’s proposal to overall data protection rules.

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