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Craig Hale

Facebook and Instagram are banned from using targeted ads in Europe

The Meta logo on a smartphone in front of the Facebook logo a little bit blurred in the background.

Meta’s Facebook and Instagram will have to stop using targeted ads across their platforms for even longer, just months after a temporary Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) ban came into play in July.

Now, Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) is to ban the processing of personal data for targeted ads, and its effects will be felt across the entire European Economic Area (EEA), including EU countries and Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

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