The owner of Facebook and Instagram, Meta, has been handed a record fine by the Irish Data Protection Commission
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It's being ordered to pay €1. billion for breaching the privacy of its EU-based customers, by sending information from its European servers to US servers. The case dates back to a legal challenge brought by Austrian privacy campaigner, Max Schrems, who raised concerns over Edward Snowden’s revelations that EU users’ data is not sufficiently protected from US intelligence agencies when it's transferred from Europe to the US.Following the EDPB’s binding dispute resolution decision, Meta Platforms Ireland Limited was issued a 1.
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