2023-05-25 12:02:00
Private life
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While the European regulation on personal data celebrates its five years of entry into force, the Austrian lawyer and his team, who are struggling with persistence and creativity to make it effective, have won a big battle once morest Meta. Earlier this week, the parent company of Facebook was fined more than one billion euros, following ten years of proceedings.
On the one hand, the battalions of lawyers appointed by the Californian behemoths of the “surveillance capitalism”, according to the expression popularized by the American economist Shoshana Zuboff; on the other, a young obstinate Austrian lawyer, and the twenty employees of the small NGO for the defense of privacy of which he is the founder. To the pessimists, the case would seem settled, but sometimes there is a moral to this kind of story. A moral, in this case, at 1.2 billion euros: this is the amount of the record fine announced Monday, May 22 by the Irish Data Protection Commission once morest Meta, the parent company of Facebook, because of transfers of data from European citizens to the United States outside the nails of EU standards (read box below). In January, the multinational was already served with a painful 390 million euros, motivated this time by the targeting imposed in the conditions of use of Facebook and Instagram.
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