Meta hit with $413 million fine in EU for breaking GDPR rules.

News Regulatory wrangling results in a huge new fine overFacebook and Instagram data handling, even as Meta vowsto appeal and EU data protection groups prepare fora court battle The Irish Data Protection Commission announced Wednesdaythat it would fine Meta Ireland a total of $413 millionfor breaches of the EU's GDPR (General Data ProtectionRegulation) related to the company's handling of personalinformation on Facebook and Instagram. The DPC pushed back, however, against the Data ProtectionBoard's instruction that the Irish data regulator conductfresh investigations into Facebook and Instagram dataprocessing, saying that the EDPB doesn't have theauthority to do that. [Extracted from the article]