A German investigation into Facebook Inc. shows that multinational companies could face probes from multiple data-protection regulators in Europe over the same missteps.

If you are a non-EU entity subject to GDPR, or are a part of a group of companies, the GDPR one stop shop mechanism may not help you.

Thinking through the role of each member of your multinational group in connection with data processing and data transfers, and documenting this may be helpful in determining the lead supervisory authority and may impact the entitlement to the One Stop Shop mechanism.

Details from The Wall Street Journal.