Facebook owner Meta fined €1.2bn for mishandling user information
by Dan Milmo and Lisa O'Carroll from Technology | The Guardian on (#6BV4R)
Penalty from Ireland's privacy regulator is a record for breach of EU data protection regulation
Facebook's owner, Meta, has been fined a record 1.2bn (1bn) and ordered to suspend the transfer of user data from the EU to the US.
The fine - equivalent to $1.3bn - imposed by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), which regulates Meta across the EU, is a record for a breach of the bloc's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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