Meta just copped a A$1.9bn fine for keeping EU data in the US. But why should users care where data are stored?
Meta now faces some A$4 billion in fines related to breaches of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations.
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Meta now faces some A$4 billion in fines related to breaches of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations.
European Union lawmakers have criticized the British government's updated privacy bill over concerns that it fails to adequately protect European citizens'
Tech giant Meta fined with record $1.3 billion by European privacy regulators for data privacy breaches, CNBC reported Monday.
Mark Zuckerberg's 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 ability for data to be transferred across borders is fundamental to how the global open internet works," Meta executives said.