Facebook owner Meta has hit out against a ‘flawed and unjustified’ fine after it was ordered to pay a record $1.3billion and stop transferring European data to America.
The European Union handed Meta the privacy fine on Monday and ordered it to stop transferring user data across the Atlantic by October, the latest chapter in a decade-long case sparked by US cyber snooping fears.
The penalty fine from Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) after a three-year probe into the social media giant is the biggest since the EU’s strict data privacy regime took effect five years ago, surpassing Amazon’s $807million penalty in 2021 for data protection violations.
