Meta says Facebook and Instagram services will have to be removed from Europe if user data is not allowed

 The U.S. Defense and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned Meta (formerly Facebook) that it will remove its largest social networks, Facebook and Instagram, from European countries if regulators do not allow them to access personal user data in Europe. Submit a clear report to.

The report states that obtaining user data in Europe is essential for the company's operations and advertising to be accurate.

But the problem is that under European law, citizens' data can only be accessed on servers located in Europe, which does not comply with previous data-sharing agreements between the United States and Europe. Meta hopes to reach a new agreement in 2022, but if that does not happen, Meta will take steps such as removing social networks from Europe itself.

Surprisingly, Meta did not comment on their encrypted messaging service, WhatsApp.

Given the loss of active users in the last quarter of the previous year, it is unlikely that Meta will actually make such a decision, despite what the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has said. Europe is the largest market for the Meta Company and it would be very disadvantageous for the company to lose the money earned through it.