Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has been fined a record €1.2 billion for transferring user data from the European Union to the United States in violation of an earlier court ruling, it said. the Irish regulator announced on Monday.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, acting on behalf of the European Union, said the European Data Protection Board had ordered the collection of “an administrative fine worth €1.2 billion”.
The tech giant has already announced that it will appeal the decision.
For the Irish Data Protection Commission, Meta’s continued data transfers to the US failed to consider the risks to the “fundamental rights and freedoms” of the people whose data was transferred across the Atlantic.
According to the regulator, Meta violated the General Data Protection Regulation when it transferred personal data of European Facebook users to the US without protecting them from Washington’s data surveillance practices, Politico reports.
This is the highest fine imposed by the European Union’s data protection regulator, the newspaper said.
Source: DN
