The Latest Breaking News from Facebook

Meta was sending data where it shouldn't, landing it in hot water – and now it has to pay the very, very high price.

Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. was hit by a record 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) European Union privacy fine and given a deadline to stop shipping users’ data to the US after regulators said it failed to protect personal information from the American security services.

Concerns have been raised over how data was harvested from Europe to the US through the Facebook platform

As predicted, Meta’s fine is the largest under the EU’s stringent data privacy policy, putting European access to Meta services under threat.

The record fine was levied by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) after a three-year probe into the social media giant

The company could have to pull Facebook and Instagram out of Europe.

Penalty from Ireland’s privacy regulator is a record for breach of EU data protection regulation

The European Union has slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion privacy fine and ordered it to stop transferring user data across the Atlantic

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