Meta has been fined a record 1.2 billion euro ($1.3 billion) by European privateness regulators over the switch of EU user data to the U.S.

The determination hyperlinks again to a case introduced by Australian privateness campaigner Max Schrems who argued that the framework for transferring EU citizen data to America didn’t defend Europeans from U.S. surveillance.

Several mechanisms to legally switch private data between the U.S. and the EU have been contested. The newest such iteration, Privacy Shield, was struck down by the European Court of Justice, the EU’s prime courtroom, in 2020.

The U.S and EU final 12 months “in principle” agreed to a new framework for cross-border data transfers. However, the new pact has not but come into impact.

The Irish Data Protection Commission that abroad Meta operations in the EU alleged that the firm infringed the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) when it continued to ship the private data of European residents to the U.S.

GDPR is the EU’s landmark data safety regulation that governs companies lively in the bloc. It got here into impact in 2018.

The 1.2 billion euro penalty for Meta is the highest sum that any firm has been fined for breaching GDPR. The earlier largest tremendous was a 746 million euros cost for e-commerce large Amazon for breaching GDPR in 2021.

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