Following the completion of a procedural mechanism to resolve regulatory disputes over how to enforce the bloc's General Data Protection Regulation, a final decision is set to land within weeks, according to a report.
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), Meta's lead data supervisor in the EU, opened an inquiry into the handling of children's data by the social media platform.
A final decision could be made as soon as the end of this month, with a hard deadline of the first week of September for the DPC to make a decision.
The decision has passed through the dispute resolution process according to the DPC deputy commissioner.
He said that they would have a decision by the end of the last week in August or the first week in September. It needs to be finished by the first week of September.
The details of what the bloc's data protection regulators have concluded are not being made public. The DPC opened an inquiry after it was discovered that the contact information of children was being leaked by the social media platform.
When it comes to applying the standard to ensure the protection of children's data, the General Data Protection Regulation pays special attention.
The DPC opened a so-called own volition enquiry, rather than acting solely on a specific complaint, because information was provided to it by a third party.
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