Meta Ireland was fined a record €1.2 billion on Monday 22 May for non-compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by its social network Facebook. A penalty imposed by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) following a dispute resolution decision adopted by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) in April (see EUROPE B13161A25).
The US company was convicted of transferring personal data of European users to the US. “The EDPB found that Meta IE’s...