The European Union issued a $1.3 billion fine to Meta on Monday after finding that Facebook’s parent company broke the bloc’s laws by transferring user data from Europe to the United States.
The move from the Irish Data Protection Commission is the latest development in a longstanding political and legal struggle to reconcile American laws on consumer data with European laws, which are more protective of online privacy and security.
The Data Protection Commission began this inquiry into Meta’s data-sharing practices in August 2020. The body determined earlier this month that Meta ran afoul of Article 46 of the GDPR — which allows tech companies under certain conditions to transfer personal data from the E.U. “to a third country or an international organisation” only if they provide “appropriate safeguards, and on condition that enforceable data subject rights and effective legal remedies for data subjects are available.
The commission ruled that Meta violated the article “when it continued to transfer personal data from the EU/EEA to the USA” after a 2020 ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidated an agreement between E.U. and U.S. regulators called
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