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Facebook owner Meta expected to be hit with record privacy breach fine

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Facebook owner Meta expected to be hit with record privacy breach fineMeta is expected to face a record fine later over its transfer of Facebook's European user data to US servers, according to reports.
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News video: Facebook owner Meta fined a record €1.2 billion over European data transfers

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Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has been working on a ban on the legal tool used by Facebook to transfer European user data to the US.

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