Meta has been hit with a record $1.3 billion fine by EU regulators due to privacy violations stemming from data transfers to the US. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) ruled that the current legal framework for these transfers does not adequately protect EU citizens' fundamental rights and freedoms, violating GDPR. The fine surpasses the previous EU record against Amazon. While Meta has been ordered to halt data transfers, the ruling only applies to Facebook data, not other Meta platforms like Instagram and WhatsApp.
Meta has been hit with a record-breaking $1.3 billion fine by EU data regulators, and ordered to stop transferring the Facebook data of EU citizens to the US. EU courts believe such data transfers expose EU citizens to privacy violations — a complaint that stems back to 2013 and revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden about US mass surveillance programs.
Second, there’s a five-month grace period before Meta has to stop future transfers, and a six-month deadline to stop holding current data in the US. Third, and most important, the EU and US are currently negotiating a new deal to transfer data that could be in place as early as this summer and as late as October. Despite the record-breaking size of the fine, experts expressed doubt that it will change anything fundamental about Meta’s privacy practices.
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