Meta fined €390m over use of data for targeted ads
The EU data watchdog says the way Meta obtained permission to process users’ data for ads broke data law. …
The DPC investigation was sparked by complaints made in 2018 by privacy campaigner Max Schrems, on behalf of two users in Austria and Belgium. The complaint was brought just as the EU’s new data and privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), came into operation.