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Meta Platforms Inc: The Norwegian watchdog, Datatilsynet, said Meta would be fined one million kroner ($97,000) per day, starting August 14.

Regulator Datatilsynet said Meta cannot harvest user data in Norway, such as users physical locations, and use it to target advertising at them, called behavioural advertising.

Norway's data protection agency said Monday it would ban Facebook and Instagram owner Meta from using the personal information of users for targeted advertising, threatening a $100,000 daily fine if it continues.

Meta fined INR 10,700 crore for violating EU data privacy rules

Referring to the EUs imposition of a record fine of $1.3 billion on Meta for violating GDPRs regulations on cross-border data transfers, Chandrasekhar highlighted that the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 has similar measures.

Meta said it would appeal against the Irish watchdogs decision.

Mark Zuckerbergs social media empire Meta* has courted controversy before. In 2018 it emerged that data from some 50 million user accounts had been harvested and sold to UK political campaign firm Cambridge Analytica.

The European Union slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion privacy fine Monday and ordered it to stop transferring users’ personal information across the Atlantic by October.

The European Union slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion privacy fine Monday and ordered it to stop transferring users' personal information across the Atlantic by October.

The fine was accompanied by an order to cease the transfer of Facebook user data from EU citizens to the United States.