Facebook Shifting U.K. Users to U.S. Agreements to Avoid EU Privacy Laws

Facebook Inc. will shift all its users in the United Kingdom into user agreements with the corporate headquarters in California, moving them out of their current relationship with Facebook’s Irish unit and out of reach of Europe’s privacy laws. The change takes effect next year and follows a similar move announced in February by Google.

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