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Meta fined 390M euros in latest European privacy crackdown
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Meta fined 390M euros in latest European privacy crackdown

  • By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer

European Union regulators have hit Facebook parent Meta with hundreds of millions in fines for privacy violations and banned the company from forcing users in the 27-nation bloc to agree to personalized ads based on their online activity. Ireland's Data Protection Commission imposed two fines Wednesday totaling 390 million euros. Its decision on the two cases that could shake up Meta's business model targeting users with ads based on what they do online. It's the commission's latest punishment for Meta for data privacy infringements, following four other fines for the company since 2021 totaling more than 900 million euros.