Meta fined 1.2 bn euros for breaching European Union’s privacy laws

Facebook’s parent company Meta has been fined 1.2 billion euros for violating European Union data privacy laws under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Politico reported on Monday. The tech giant has also been ordered to stop transferring data collected from Facebook users in Europe to the United States of America (USA).

GDPR was first implemented on May 25, 2018. The Irish Data Protection Commission, in its decision, said that the company was not sufficiently protecting the European data from Washington’s data surveillance practices.