Meta fined billions: a new dawn for data • Table.Briefings

The European data protection authorities want the Facebook Group to pay a fine of €1.2 billion. It is not only the amount of the fine that marks a turning point in data protection – because in their decision, the supervisors state much more.

Ten years have passed since Edward Snowden gave documents about US data-mining programs to investigative journalists. „Spying among friends, that’s not possible at all“, German Chancellor Angela Merkel had said back then. Admittedly, this did not correspond to reality, not even in Europe. But the basic idea of European data protection law is exactly that.

Meta fined billions: a new dawn for data protection

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