Norway asks EU regulator to fine Facebook owner Meta over privacy breach – Reuters

The logo of Meta Platforms’ business group is seen in Brussels, Belgium December 6, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsOSLO/BRUSSELS, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Norway’s data regulator will refer the ongoing fine it has imposed on Meta Platforms (META.O) to the European data authority (EDA), it said on Thursday, a move that could make the penalty permanent and widen it to the European Union.The EU’s regulator confirmed to Reuters it had received the request to expand the fine. It said it would first make an assessment of the file after which it “will have two weeks to adopt its urgent binding decision”.The owner of Facebook and Instagram has been fined one million crowns ($93,000) per day since Aug. 14 for three months for breaching users’ privacy by harvesting their data and using it to target advertising at them, a business model common to Big Tech.That is the maximum period for which the Norwegian regulator Datatilsynet is allowed to impose such a penalty.Datatilsynet is now referring its decision to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), which could make the decision permanent and widen it to the European Union and the European Economic Area. Norway is not a member of the
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