Meta Fined Record $1.3 Billion in EU Over US Data Transfers (3)

Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. was hit by a record €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) European Union privacy fine and given a deadline to stop shipping users’ data to the US after regulators said it failed to protect personal information from the American security services.

The social network giant’s continued data transfers to the US didn’t address “the risks to the fundamental rights and freedoms” of people whose data was being transfered across the Atlantic, the Irish Data Protection Commission said on Monday.

Meta Platforms Inc. offices in Dublin, Ireland.

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On top of the fine, which eclipses a €746 million EU privacy penalty previously doled out ...