DUBLIN: Ireland's High Court on Sept 14 temporarily froze a probe by Facebook's lead European Union regulator that threatened to halt the US social media giant's transatlantic data flows, a court spokesman said.
Facebook had sought a judicial review of the Irish Data Protection Commission's preliminary decision that the mechanism it used to transfer data from the European Union to the United States "cannot in practice be used."
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