Facebook owner fined record 1.2bn euro for GDPR breach


Source: standard.co.uk standard.co.uk

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F acebook owner Meta has been fined 1.2 billion euro (£1 billion) and was ordered to stop transferring user data from European users to its US servers. The record fine was levied by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) after a three-year probe into the social media giant. The DPC said that Meta had breached part of the European GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) rules in the way that it had moved data of Facebook users across borders. It ordered Meta Ireland to “suspend any future transfer of personal data to the US within the period of five months” and also...