Meta is threatening to shut down Facebook and Instagram in Europe

Mark Zuckerberg’s meta recently threatened the European Union (EU) with removing the services of Facebook and Instagram from Europe. Meta made such comments mainly because of Europe’s restrictions on the processing of personal information.

In a report from the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Meta made clear the closure of Facebook and Instagram. In the report, Meta claims that data processing in the European Union and the United States is critical to the proper conduct of our targeted ad business.

“If we are unable to transfer data between countries and territories where operations are ongoing or fail to share data between multiple products or services, it may disrupt our service delivery, which we use to provide our services or target ads.” I live. ”

The problem is that according to EU policy, citizens’ data will only be stored on servers located in Europe, which would cancel the previous data-sharing facility of the United States and the European Union.

Because of this, Meta has a lot of problems with data sharing between its services. However, Meta hopes that this policy may change in 2022.

If the policy does not change, Meta’s activities in EU countries could be disrupted.

Many new services, including Facebook and Instagram, will have to be shut down if new data transfer frameworks cannot be used and standard contractual clauses (SCCs) cannot be used, or if no other alternative means of data transfer from Europe to the United States can be found. Meta said he could.

In Europe, Meta has directly reported on Meta’s business and financial losses, which could lead to the closure of its operations.

Interestingly, the company does not mention encrypted messenger, WhatsApp. The decision to shut down Facebook and Instagram could only be made because of the problem, the company said. But it is a strange thing that WhatsApp, the most widely used communication medium in the European Union, is not using meta in its argument.

WhatsApp does not have such problems with European and American data as it provides encrypted messaging services and no ads.

But whatever the situation, the fact that Facebook and Instagram have been completely shut down in Europe sounds strange and unrealistic. Facebook and Instagram bring in huge amounts of revenue from EU countries.

Even if such a large sum of money is enough to pay off the loss, the cost will have to be multiplied by losing 25 percent of the market value, which would be a historic thing.

At the moment, it is believed that Meta has made such a threat to shake the tone of the European Union. It remains to be seen which side of the two sides will stand firm and win.

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