
Norway To Ban Facebook and Instagram’s Data Harvesting Advertisements
Meta will face daily fines of $100,000 if it continues to show Norwegians personalized ads based on their search history or location.

Meta will face daily fines of $100,000 if it continues to show Norwegians personalized ads based on their search history or location.

To the applause of watchdog groups, Meta’s mass data collection in Europe may be over.

The company has three months to comply, but Meta has announced its intention to appeal both on the merits and the fines. In its defence, Zuckerberg’s company argues that there is not enough “regulatory certainty” about data protection.

As services like social media platforms become indispensable to the ordinary operations of businesses, we face the prospect of a future in which lawmakers are dictated to by foreign companies.