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 social media conglomerate’s move is a response to Ottawa’s Online News Act, which compels Meta to pay news outlets for posting their journalism on Facebook and Instagram.
The EU has sent its top gun in the form of Commission official Thierry Breton to prepare Twitter and Facebook for new hate speech regulations.
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The Privacy Shield, struck down by the European Court of Justice in 2020, has now been replaced by a new data-sharing agreement between the U.S. and EU.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.
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