Facebook owner Meta fined a record €1.2 billion over European data transfers

 

Meta has been ordered to stop transferring European user data across the Atlantic by October to comply with strict EU privacy rules.

Meta, Facebook's parent company, has been fined a record €1.2 billion by the Irish data regulator for breaching EU data protection rules.

Meta is being fined for "continuing to transfer personal data" of users from the European Economic Area (EEA) to the US in breach of the EU’s strict General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), which acts on behalf of the EU, said in its decision. (...)