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Meta hit with record 1.2-billion-euro fine over US data transfers

FP Staff • May 22, 2023, 16:20:47 IST
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EU regulators have already hit Meta with fines of hundreds of millions of euros over data breaches by its Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook services

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Meta hit with record 1.2-billion-euro fine over US data transfers

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has been fined a record 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) for moving EU user data to the US in violation of a prior court judgement, Ireland’s regulator stated on Monday. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), which operates on behalf of the European Union, said that the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has ordered it to collect “an administrative fine in the amount of 1.2 billion euros”. Since 2020, the DPC has been looking into Meta Ireland’s transfer of personal data from the EU to the US. It found that Meta, which has its European headquarters in Dublin, failed to “address the risks to the fundamental rights and freedoms of data subjects” that were identified in a previous ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The CJEU interprets EU law to make sure it is applied in the same way in all member states. In response, Meta said it was “disappointed to have been singled out” and the ruling was “flawed, unjustified and sets a dangerous precedent for the countless other companies”. “We intend to appeal both the decision’s substance and its orders including the fine, and will seek a stay through the courts to pause the implementation deadlines,” Meta president of global affairs Nick Clegg and chief legal officer Jennifer Newstead said in a blog post. “There is no immediate disruption to Facebook in Europe,” they added. Fourth fine EU regulators have already hit Meta with fines of hundreds of millions of euros over data breaches by its Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook services. It is the third fine imposed on the social media giant so far this year in the EU and the fourth in six months. In January, the DPC fined Meta 390 million euros for breaking data rules in its use of targeted advertising on its apps. In March, Meta was made to pay 5.5 million euros for breaching the GDPR with its WhatsApp messaging service. In 2021, online trader Amazon was fined 746 million euros in Luxembourg for infringing the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Following the previous fines, Meta said it was committed to changing its terms of use in Europe so that it can continue to collect and process the personal data of its European users. In the latest case, the DPC had initially wanted to force Meta to suspend the offending data transfers, saying that a fine “would exceed the extent of powers that could be described as being ‘appropriate, proportionate and necessary’”. But its peer regulators in the EU, known as Concerned Supervisory Authorities (CSAs), disagreed and said it should be “subject to an administrative fine”, the DPC said. With no hope of consensus, the Irish body referred the objections to the EDPB, which ruled that Meta Ireland must suspend future transfer of personal data to the United States and pay a fine. ‘Strong signal’ Clegg and Newstead said the EDPB decision to overrule the DPC “raises serious questions”. “No country has done more than the US to align with European rules via their latest reforms, while transfers continue largely unchallenged to countries such as China,” they added. But EDPB chair Andrea Jelinek characterised Meta’s infringement as “very serious” and called its data transfers “systematic, repetitive and continuous”. “The unprecedented fine is a strong signal to organisations that serious infringements have far-reaching consequences,” she added. Max Schrems, who set off a decade of legal battles with his challenge against Meta over the movement of EU data to the United States, welcomed the decision. But the privacy activist said far harsher sanctions could have been used as Meta had “knowingly broken the law to make a profit”, he said. “It took us 10 years of litigation against the Irish DPC to get to this result… and risked millions of procedural costs,” Schrems said. “The Irish regulator has done everything to avoid this decision,” he added. Read all the Latest News , Trending News ,  Cricket News , Bollywood News , India News and Entertainment News here. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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