Ireland’s privacy watchdog has hit Meta with a record-breaking privacy fine of €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) over the tech giant’s illegal transfers of European users’ personal data to the United States—and perhaps more importantly, has ordered the company to stop sending any more of that information across the Atlantic.
The ban, which Meta has previously warned could lead it to pull Facebook and Instagram out of the European Union, will take effect in mid-October.
