Facebook can’t dodge EU-wide privacy orders, top court rules

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, gave data regulators unprecedented powers to fine companies as much as 4% of their annual sales. The one-stop-shop policy has raised questions about the powers of EU regulators other than the Irish to sanction a company like Facebook. — Reuters

Facebook Inc can’t fully escape potential privacy orders from European Union data protection authorities beyond its lead watchdog based in Ireland, the EU’s top court said.

Under certain conditions, a national supervisory authority may exercise its power “to bring any alleged infringement” of EU data protection rules to court anywhere in the bloc, “even though that authority is not the lead supervisory authority with regard to that processing,” the EU Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday.