OSLO: Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms will be fined one million crowns (US$100,000) per day over privacy breaches unless it takes remedial action, Norway's data protection authority said on Monday (Jul 17), in a move that could have wider European implications. Regulator Datatilsynet said it wo
OSLO: Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms will be fined one million crowns per day over privacy breaches unless it takes remedial action, Norway's data protection authority said on Monday , in a move that could have wider European implications.
It said Meta cannot harvest user data in Norway, such as users' physical locations, and use it to target advertising at them, called behavioural advertising, a business model common to Big Tech. Meta said it would review Datatilsynet's decision and that there would be no immediate impact on its services.Datatilsynet has referred its move to the European Data Protection Board, which, if the latter agrees, could make the fine permanent and widen the decision's territorial scope in Europe.Datatilsynet's decision comes days after the European Union's top court ruled Meta cannot harvest user data for behavioural advertising.
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