For the first time, the European Union has been found to have violated its own privacy rules, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The EU was fined €400 for transferring data without proper safeguards when a German citizen used the 'Sign in with Facebook' option on a European Commission webpage. The data was transferred to Meta Platforms servers in the United States.
The European Union has investigated itself and found…actual wrongdoing! For the first time ever, the EU has been found to have violated its own privacy rules established by the General Data Protection Regulation and will have to pay a fine, per a
The victim of the EU’s brazen disregard for the law was a German citizen who used the “Sign in with Facebook” option when registering for a conference through a European Commission webpage. When the user clicked that button, data about their device, browser, and IP address were transferred through a content delivery network managed by Amazon Web Services and eventually found its way to servers operated by Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms in the United States.
GDPR has been a bit of a mixed bag since its implementation. It’s undoubtedly grabbed some headlines with major fines aimed at Silicon Valley giants. But enforcement can take forever—even the EU’s first self-imposed fine for violating one person’s privacy took over two years to process.
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