Meta €1.2bn fine justified – European Data Protection Board

The European Data Protection Board says the one point two billion euro (€1.2 billion) fine imposed on Meta Ireland for breaching EU-US data transfer rules was justified.

The Irish Data Protection Commission yesterday fined Facebook’s parent company, Meta Ireland for breaching the EU’s GDPR rules (General Data Protection Regulation). The Commission ruled Meta continued to transfer personal data from the EU to the US despite a European Court of Justice ruling against such transfers.

Ireland’s data regulator had disagreed though with the fine. But the Brussels-based European Data Protection Board says the massive financial penalty was justified. Isabelle Vereecken is head of the EDPB’s Secretariat.

Out words: the fine

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