E.U. slaps Meta with record $1.3 billion fine for data privacy violations

The European Union issued a $1.3 billion fine to Meta on Monday after finding that Facebook’s parent company broke the bloc’s laws by transferring user data from Europe to the United States. The Irish Data Protection Commission, which handed down the order Monday, said in a statement that Meta’s data transfers were in breach of the E.U.’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a sweeping set of laws that restrict what companies can do with people’s personal data. Meta’s European headquarters are in Dublin. The body also ordered Meta to suspend...