Warning for Facebook users as app fined £335 over 'breach of your privacy'
Meta had previously said such ads are necessary to execute contracts with users – which violated EU privacy law.The ruling by the Irish Data Protection Commission on Wednesday gives Facebook parent company Meta a deadline to stop relying on user contracts to justify the use of behavioural ads.
Meta now has three months to find a new justification or stop using the ads - which are based on tracking a user’s online activity.'s tech group had previously said such ads are necessary to execute contracts with users – which violated EU privacy law. The decisions by the Irish watchdog - one for Facebook and one for Instagram - could end up limiting the
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