If Meta doesn’t take corrective action, it will be punished one million crowns ($100,000) each day for privacy violations, according to Norway’s data protection regulator. Meta controls Facebook and Instagram.
Unless Meta takes action, regulator Datatilsynet warned it would charge the fee every day from August 4 until November 3. The daily penalty might equal $10 million in total.
It stated that Meta could not gather user information in Norway for the purpose of using it to target users with advertisements, such as users’ physical whereabouts. This type of marketing is known as behavioural advertising, and Big Tech uses it frequently read more Meta faced with daily $100K fine over privacy breaches.
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