

Meta To Cough Up € 1.2 Billion for Breach of Privacy Laws
It is the heftiest fine an EU watchdog has ever imposed on a tech firm, with Amazon being the previous record holder.
It is the heftiest fine an EU watchdog has ever imposed on a tech firm, with Amazon being the previous record holder.
The decision by regulators will prevent Facebook from transferring user data from the EU to America and may potentially force the U.S. to conclude a data protection agreement with Brussels.
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.
The Irish Data Protection Commission took the unprecedented decision to block all data transfers between Europe and the United States.
Not everyone is as elated by the prospect of non-biological ‘reproduction.’ Jordan Peterson called it “more utter anti-human insanity.”
The Privacy Shield, struck down by the European Court of Justice in 2020, has now been replaced by a new data-sharing agreement between the U.S. and EU. How its implementation will ultimately fare, and whether it will arouse the scrutiny of European courts, remains to be seen.
Facebook gives itself the luxury of offering its “two minutes of hate” to its subscribers, telling them, in its great wisdom, which enemies are allowed.
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.