Court dismisses Facebook bid to block EU data sharing regulation

Ireland’s High Court has dismissed a bid by Facebook bid to block a European Union privacy regulation that could suspend the flow of data from the EU to the US.

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal on Friday, the Irish court dismissed “all of Facebook’s procedural complaints about a preliminary decision on data flows that it received in August from the country’s Data Protection Commission”.

The court rejected Facebook’s claims that the privacy regulator had given it too little time to respond or issued a judgment prematurely.

Facebook first appealed the order in part because it claimed the Irish Data Protection Commission (IDPC) and the EU’s other privacy regulators “were moving too quickly and hadn’t given the company appropriate time to respond,” reports The Verge.