Fines, Penalties & Data Breaches

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Fines, Penalties & Data Breaches

Meta was fined over a billion euros.

Meta was fined a record 1.2 billion euros by Ireland's Data Protection Commission in May 2023 for unlawfully transferring EU user data to the United States.