Meta has been fined 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) by an Irish regulator for violating data transfer rules—the largest fine imposed under European Union’s privacy laws.
The fine was imposed by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) after Facebook’s parent company was found to have violated the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by continuing to transfer personal data from the EU/European Economic Area (EEA) to the United States, despite an EU court ruling from 2020 that invalidated a data transfer pact between the two regions.
