Irish territory: Facebook has its European headquarters in Dublin and is regulated by the IDPC.
BRUSSELS/DUBLIN: Data transfers to the United States by companies such as Facebook and Google face a renewed legal threat after the Irish privacy watchdog said on Wednesday it would refer Facebook's data transfer mechanisms to the top EU court.
The move follows an Irish investigation into Facebook's transfer of European Union users' data to the United States to ensure that personal privacy is properly protected from US government surveillance.
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