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The Irish DPC is ready to issue another major fine, this time hitting Microsoft for noncompliant targeted advertising practices.

Meta just received the largest fine over GDPR violations in history

The popular Meta messaging app is fined for similar GDPR violations other Meta products' Terms of Services have incited.

After lengthy review, the Irish DPC issued a massive fine to Meta over its failure to give opt-in for personalized ads.

After years of deliberation, the EU and US finally have a draft adequacy decision in place for free data flows between the nations.

The Hellenic Data Protection Authority (DPA) has fined Clearview AI €20 million for EU GDPR violations. The company, which sells facial recognition software to law enforcement agencies in the United States, is banned from collecting and processing the personal data of Greek citizens and has been ordered to delete any data already collected. Earlier this year, Italy’s DPA fined the company €20M for unlawfully processing the data of Italian citizens where the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office announced a penalty of more than 7.5 million pounds in the same respect.