MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA — Facebook has moved more than 1.5 billion users out of reach of a new European Union privacy law, Reuters reported. <br />Users outside the United States and Canada are currently governed by terms of service agreed with the social network's international headquarters in Ireland. <br />The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR, is set to take effect May 25. <br /><br />The new law allows European regulators to fine companies for collecting or using personal data without users' consent.<br /><br />Facebook is liable under GDPR fines of up to 4 percent of its global revenue, around $1.6 billion, for any infractions, according to the Guardian. <br />Facebook user data from Asia, Africa and Latin America will be transferred from the Ireland headquarter offices to main offices in California. <br />The change affects more than 70 percent of the site's 2 billion-plus members. As of December, Facebook had 239 million users in the United States and Canada, 370 million in Europe and 1.52 billion users everywhere else.
