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The firm reassured the users that there will be no immediate disruption to Facebook in Europe. /Dado Ruvic/Reuters
Facebook owner Meta has been fined a record $1.3 billion for transferring EU user data to the United States in breach of a previous court ruling, Ireland's regulator announced.
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), which acts on behalf of the European Union, said the European Data Protection Board had ordered it to collect "an administrative fine in the amount of €1.2 billion." Meta said it would appeal the decision.
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Meta says it will appeal the Irish DPC data transfer ruling, including what it calls an "unjustified and unnecessary fine," and seek a stay of the orders through the courts. The firm also reassured the users that there will be no immediate disruption to Facebook in Europe.
The long-running battle over where Facebook stores its data began a decade ago after Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems brought a legal challenge over the risk of U.S. snooping in light of disclosures by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
Meta said last month it expected a new pact facilitating the safe transfer of EU citizens' personal data to the United States would be fully implemented before it has to suspend transfers.
That would mean its previous warning that a stoppage could force it to suspend Facebook services in Europe would not come to pass.
Officials have said the new data protection framework – agreed by the European Union and U.S government in March 2022 – may be ready by July, but Meta also cautioned that there is a chance it might not be ready in time.
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