The European Union has imposed a historic fine on Facebook, now known as Meta, for skipping the GPDR data protection regulations. Specific, 1,200 million euros will have to pay the popular social network for having transferred data from its users to its headquarters in the United States from Europesomething restricted by the Law and that the company continued to carry out despite the warnings from the authorities.
After this fine, Meta will have 5 months to restructure its systems and stop sending the data to the US. Remember that the company has its European headquarters in Ireland and must also comply with the GPDR. The company threatened to leave Europe after the approval of this law, however, since then they have continued to operate in the European Union.
In fact, after this fine, the company assures that they will continue to operate in the EU at least for now, but I have answered that they will appeal the decision and that it is not a problem of a company, but rather that there is a conflict between the way of understanding privacy between the US and the European Union, and that both organizations should agree.
It is not the first time that Meta has been fined for not complying with the privacy regulations of the European Union, not long ago, its WhatsApp messaging service was fined for similar reasons.
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