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Meta was hit with a record €1.2 billion Euro ($1.3 billion) fine by its lead privacy regulator in the European Union, for its handling of user information and given five months to stop transferring user data to the United States.
The fine imposed by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) concerned Meta’s continued transferring of personal data and topped the previous €746 million record EU privacy fine by Luxembourg on Amazon.com Inc in 2021, according to a DPC statement.
