Meta breached your privacy for the sake of adverts — and has been fined $1.3bn as a result

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The owner of FaceBook, Meta, has been ordered to pay $1.3 billion in a massive fine after it was discovered that the company was sending its user's data from Europe to the United States.

The fine, according to the BBC,  comes from Irelands Data Protection Commission (DPC), and is the "largest imposed under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation privacy law."