8/16/2023 0 Comments Meta breachMeta executives said there is no immediate disruption to Facebook in Europe. Meta said it will appeal the ruling, including the "unjustified and unnecessary fine". Meta has also been ordered on Monday to cease the processing of personal data of European users in the US within six months. "The unprecedented fine is a strong signal to organizations that serious infringements have far-reaching consequences," Jelinek said in a statement. She said Facebook has millions of users in Europe, so the volume of personal data transferred is massive. The DPC said it has been investigating Meta Ireland's transfer of user data from the EU to the US since 2020 and found that Meta, with its European head office in Dublin, failed to "address the risks to the fundamental rights and freedoms of data subjects "that were identified in a ruling in 2020 by the Court of Justice of the EU, or CJEU.Īndrea Jelinek, head of the European Data Protection Board, said the EDPB found that Meta's infringement is "very serious since it concerns transfers that are systematic, repetitive and continuous". The decision announced on Monday is the biggest fine under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, a data protection and privacy law commonly known as the GDPR. The group's European operations are based in Dublin, along with a number of global tech giants including Apple and Google, so Ireland's data protection agency is the lead regulator responsible for holding them to account.Facebook owner Meta has been fined a record 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) by the Irish Data Protection Commission, or DPC, on behalf of the European Union for illegally transferring EU user data to the United States. Meta said in November that it would axe more than 11,000 staff after profits more than halved to $4.4 billion in the third quarter. The latest DPC fines are dwarfed by Meta's multi-billion-dollar earnings, but the company has been ravaged by a global advertising slump and stagnating user numbers. The regulator said it will seek to annul the EDPB's request before the European Union's Court of Justice. However in its statement the DPC pushed back saying the the EU body does not have the power to "direct an authority to engage in open-ended and speculative investigation". The EDPB has also asked the Irish regulator to investigate Meta's use of personal data. They asked the EDPB to judge the dispute with the EU data regulator deciding in their favour. In October 2021, the Irish authority had proposed a draft decision that validated the legal basis used by the group and suggested a fine of up to 36 million euros for Facebook and up to 23 million euros for Instagram, over their lack of transparency.įrance's CNIL regulator and other European bodies disagreed with the draft sanction, which they considered to be far too low. The Vienna-based privacy group NOYB, which brought the three complaints against Meta, had accused the social media behemoth of reinterpreting consent as a civil law contract, which stopped users from refusing targeted advertising. This latest round of fines follows the adoption of three binding decisions by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), the EU's data protection regulator, in early December. The Irish regulator had fined Meta 405 million euros in September for failures in handling the data of minors, and 265 million euros in November for not sufficiently protecting users' data. Thursday's Whatsapp fine was also far lower because it did not relate to targeted advertising. The DPC said its more recent fine was considerably less because of a 225 million euro fine imposed on WhatsApp for "for breaches of this and other transparency obligations over the same period of time". Meta announced its intention to appeal the 4 January decision, adding the regulatory ruling did not prevent targeted or personalised advertising.
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