Facebook owner Meta hit with record £1bn fine under Europe’s GDPR laws and told to stop sending European users’ data to the US

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  1. **From The Telegraph:**

    Facebook’s owner Meta has been fined a record €1.2bn (£1bn) by Ireland and told to stop sending European users’ data to the US, in a spying row that has seen the social networking giant threaten to leave Europe.

    Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced the fine on Monday morning. It is a record penalty under Europe’s GDPR laws.

    Meta has been fined for transferring European users’ data to the US in a way that creates “risks to the fundamental rights and freedoms” of its users, the DPC said.

    The company will also be forced to stop transferring users’ data to America within five months and has been given six months to remove data from US servers.

    The fine, which eclipses the previous record GDPR fine of €746m given to Amazon in 2021, is the culmination of a years-long campaign from privacy activists who claimed Facebook’s data transfers breached European laws because of the extent of US surveillance practices.

    Facebook had previously warned in legal filings that it may have to leave Europe as a result of a data transfer ban, but has since said it does not plan to do so.

    Nick Clegg, Meta’s head of global affairs, said the fine was “flawed, unjustified and sets a dangerous precedent for the countless other companies transferring data between the EU and US”.

    **Read more here:** https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/05/22/meta-fined-data-transfers-eu-regulators-us/

  2. Wohooo great job! Those corporations need to learn some manners. And pay their corporate taxes as well which most of them don’t.

  5. Considering their net revenue in 2022 is 116.6B, and profit 23.1B, this is a drop in the bucket for what is otherwise a massive breach.
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    > Facebook had previously warned in legal filings that it may have to leave Europe as a result of a data transfer ban, but has since said it does not plan to do so.

    Haha. Yeah f*cking right.

  7. The fine is a drop in the ocean.

    Also I’ll bet “users’ data” is poorly defined. A lot of sites have Facebook’s tracking tag, telling Facebook what you’re buying and how much you’re paying for it. Are we going to stop that? How?

    Having a Facebook account is irrelevant to these people. You’re getting tracked anyway.

    But then again it’s pretty harmless. We’re only talking about advertising accuracy. Right?

  10. Brilliant stuff, Nick Clegg sold his soul to the devil and should be ignored.
    Shame this probably doesn’t apply to the UK.

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