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Personal data: Meta receives a record fine in Europe of 1.2 billion euros

2023-05-22T09:58:38.256Z

Highlights: Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) accuses Facebook's parent company of violating the European data regulation, the famous GDPR. Meta has "continued to transfer personal data" of its European users to the United States despite numerous reminders to the firm. The company had said it intended to appeal, "both on the merits and the fines." The fine is a record for the DPC. The Irish policeman has already sentenced the Californian giant in September 2022 to a fine of 405 million euros.


Meta has "continued to transfer personal data" of its European users to the United States despite numerous reminders to the


And four. Meta was sentenced on Monday to a record fine of 1.2 billion euros by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), an institution linked to the European Union, which accuses Facebook's parent company of violating the European data regulation, the famous GDPR.

In recent months, Meta has received several fairly high fines. On 4 January, the DPC imposed two fines totalling 390 million euros, on the grounds that the firm had not respected "its obligations in terms of transparency" in the processing of users' personal data. The company had said it intended to appeal, "both on the merits and the fines."

As early as 2018, when the GDPR came into force, the privacy association Noyb filed three complaints against the group which, accused Noyb, interpreted consent "as a simple civil law contract". This view did not allow users to opt out of targeted advertising on Facebook and Instagram. In January, Noyb was very critical of the DPC for claiming "not to be able" to estimate the amount of revenue Meta had generated by violating the GDPR, as requested by Brussels in December.

A battle that began in 2018

Would this amount of 1.2 billion euros be an attempt to approach this estimate of gains? Meta is convicted of "continuing to transfer personal data" of users from the European Economic Area (EEA) to the United States in violation of European rules. It must also "suspend all transfers of personal data to the United States within five months" of notification of this decision and must comply with the GDPR within six months, the DPC added.

Meta calls the fine "unjustified and unnecessary" and will seek its suspension in court, the social media giant immediately responded Monday in a statement sent to AFP. "Thousands of companies and organizations rely on the ability to transfer data between the EU and the US" and "there is a fundamental rights conflict between US government rules on access to data and European privacy rights," the Californian giant continues. Who hopes to see the United States and the European Union adopt during the summer a new legal framework for the transfer of personal data, following an agreement in principle adopted last year.

In October 2021, the Irish authority had proposed to validate the legal basis used by Facebook and suggested a fine of 26 to 36 million euros for lack of transparency. The French CNIL and other regulators had expressed their disagreement with this draft sanction, considered far too weak. The European Data Protection Board, the European regulator of the sector, had settled the dispute by ruling against the DPC.

The Irish policeman has already sentenced the Californian giant in September 2022 to a fine of 405 million euros for failures in the processing of the data of minors, and in November to the tune of 265 million euros for not having sufficiently protected the data of its users.

Source: leparis

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