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Meta ordered to halt EU-US data transfers, delete data and pay EUR1.2 billion GDPR fine

By Jakub Krupa and Sam Clark ( May 22, 2023, 09:04 GMT | Insight) -- Meta Platforms has been ordered by Ireland's data protection regulator to suspend data transfers from the EU to the US by its Facebook service and pay a record 1.2 billion euros in fines for breaching EU privacy law. The US tech giant has said it will appeal. The case is expected to send cross-industry shockwaves as many thousands of companies also transfer data to the US — and the vast majority rely on "standard contractual clauses," the legal mechanism Facebook has now been told it must not use.Meta Platforms has been ordered to suspend data transfers from the EU to the US by its Facebook service and pay a record fine of 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) for breaching EU privacy law at the end of a long dispute with the Irish Data Protection Commission. The US tech giant has already said it will appeal....

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