Meta is no stranger to fines in Europe. The company was once punished for violating the General Data Protection Regulation aka GDPR in Europe.
GDPR itself refers to a set of rules introduced by the European Union in 2018 to protect user privacy.
Meta, in total, has been fined 2.5 billion Euros in Europe, by the Irish DPC alone.
This fine includes the largest fine, namely 1.2 billion Euros in 2023, which Meta still denies. Fines and legal battles over personal data breaches by platforms continue, Meta is one of the prominent technology companies in the world that has been hit with fines several times.
This company created by Mark Zuckerberg has a very large scale with millions of users who rely on this platform every day.