Some European Union regulators objected to Ireland's preliminary ruling in a landmark solitude evaluation of Twitter, the lead regulator said on Thursday, triggering a procedure where a vast majority decision will be sought.
Twitter had seemed set to become the first huge technology company to confront a fine by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) under rougher EU data protection principles after it filed the choice to other member states in May.
Underneath the EU's General Data Protection Regulation's (GDPR)"One Stop Shop" program introduced in 2018, authorities can impose penalties for violations of up to 4% of a organization's global revenue or 20 million euros ($22 million), whichever is greater.
Ireland hosts the European headquarters of a range of U.S. technology businesses, producing its the EU's lead regulator for firms including Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Google.
But it must discuss its preliminary decision with all concerned EU supervisory authorities (CSAs) and consider their perspectives in its final verdict.
"Some of objections were raised by CSAs and the DPC participated in a consultation process with them," Graham Doyle, Deputy Commissioner in the Irish DPC, said in a statement.
As quite a few objections have been maintained, the DPC has now referred the issue to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), he added.
The EDPB now has one month to reach a two-thirds bulk among member states and if this fails, a further month to seek out a complete majority. If it can't find arrangement, the seat of this board will cast the deciding vote.
The Twitter ruling relates to a bug in its Android program where some consumers' shielded tweets were made public, and if it advised that the regulator in a timely manner. The DPC had 20 additional probes open into large technology companies at the end of 2019.
Twitter had seemed set to become the first huge technology company to confront a fine by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) under rougher EU data protection principles after it filed the choice to other member states in May.
Underneath the EU's General Data Protection Regulation's (GDPR)"One Stop Shop" program introduced in 2018, authorities can impose penalties for violations of up to 4% of a organization's global revenue or 20 million euros ($22 million), whichever is greater.
Ireland hosts the European headquarters of a range of U.S. technology businesses, producing its the EU's lead regulator for firms including Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Google.
But it must discuss its preliminary decision with all concerned EU supervisory authorities (CSAs) and consider their perspectives in its final verdict.
"Some of objections were raised by CSAs and the DPC participated in a consultation process with them," Graham Doyle, Deputy Commissioner in the Irish DPC, said in a statement.
As quite a few objections have been maintained, the DPC has now referred the issue to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), he added.
The EDPB now has one month to reach a two-thirds bulk among member states and if this fails, a further month to seek out a complete majority. If it can't find arrangement, the seat of this board will cast the deciding vote.
The Twitter ruling relates to a bug in its Android program where some consumers' shielded tweets were made public, and if it advised that the regulator in a timely manner. The DPC had 20 additional probes open into large technology companies at the end of 2019.