Meta is hit with a record 1.2 billion euro ($1.9 billion) fine by its lead privacy regulator in the European Union for its handling of user information and given five months to stop transferring users' data to the United States.
Meta has been hit with a record 1.2 billion euro fine by its lead privacy regulator in the European Union for its handling of user information, and given five months to stop transferring users' data to the United States.
The battle over where Meta's Facebook stores its data began a decade ago after Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems brought a legal challenge over the risk of US snooping in light of disclosures by former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. That would mean its previous warning that a stoppage could force it to suspend Facebook services in Europe would not come to pass.
Europe's top court, the European Court of Justice, threw out the two previous pacts over concerns about US surveillance.
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