"Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August", 8 August 2023

Facebook owner Meta Platforms will be fined 1m krone ($98,500) a day over privacy breaches from 14 August, Norway’s data protection authority told Reuters on Monday, a decision that could have wider European implications. The regulator, Datatilsynet, had said on 17 July that the company would be fined if it did not address privacy breaches the regulator had identified.

Meta Platforms did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

Datatilsynet had said Meta cannot harvest user data in Norway, such as users’ physical locations, and use it to target advertising at them, called behavioural advertising, a business model common to big tech. It had until 4 August to prove to the regulator that it had addressed the issue...

..Meta last week said it intends to ask users in the European Union for their consent before allowing businesses to target advertising based on what they view on its services such as Facebook and Instagram. Judin said that step was not enough. Meta had to stop the processing of personal data immediately and until that consent mechanism was up and running...