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Mark Zuckerberg Meta has been hit by a record-breaking fine of 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) by the European Union, for breaking digital privacy rules by transferring the data of EU citizens to U.S. servers. Stemming from a case created by Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission alleged that the legal framework…
Facebook parent company Meta received a record-breaking $1.3 billion fine in Europe (€1.2 billion) following a privacy violation that regulators have been investigating for a decade. It involves the transfer of Facebook data belonging to European Union users to the US. The EU started looking into the company’s data transfer practices in 2013, following the…
The owner of FaceBook, Meta, has been ordered to pay $1.3 billion in a massive fine after it was discovered that the company was sending its user’s data from Europe to the United States.The fine, according to the BBC, comes from Irelands Data Protection Commission (DPC), and is the “largest imposed under the EU’s General…
