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Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August (www.theguardian.com)

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Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August::Country’s data protection regulator said firm cannot harvest user information such as physical locations for showing targeted ads

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[–] Countmacula@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A good start but still nothing for them :/

[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well yeah, that by itself is pocket change for FB. If fined for the full duration that's just short of $800k total. But the interesting part is this:

Datatilsynet can make it permanent by referring its decision to the European Data Protection Board, which has the power to do so, if it agrees with the Norwegian regulator’s decision.

That could also widen the decision’s territorial scope to the rest of Europe. Datatilsynet had yet to take this step.

If made permanent and expanded to the rest of Europe, which probably also means a significantly higher fine, then that is bound to become a thorn in their side.