Facebook is therefore regulated by the Irish data protection commissioner.
Yates said: "So it is a matter for [the] data protection commissioner".
Still, German regulators, particularly Mr. Caspar, the data protection commissioner for Hamburg, were alarmed.
Instead, the data protection commissioner in Jersey, Emma Martins, has prosecuted him under the Data Protection Act.
In the report, released today, an EU data protection commissioner accused Google of not respecting data protection.
On Thursday, the Bavarian regulator transferred the case to the German federal data protection commissioner, Peter Schaar.
Julia Powles will be in discussion with the defendant in the ECJ ruling, Irish data protection commissioner Helen Dixon, on 3 November, 11am, at Web Summit, Dublin.
Everyone on the social network in the EU signs a contract with Facebook Ireland, audited by the data protection commissioner in that country.
The Irish data protection commissioner must immediately move to prevent any further data transfers to the US by Facebook, which operates under Irish jurisdiction.
"It has to be their decision, whether they want to connect their account with Facebook," Johannes Caspar, the Hamburg data protection commissioner, said in a statement.
Hanspeter Thür, the federal data protection commissioner, said Google's pictures, which were introduced last week, violated the country's privacy laws because they failed to obscure people's identities.
