The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) imposed a fine of 1,200 million euros on target (about $1,299 million) for violating the privacy of its users through its Facebook social network.

DPC ordered Purpose that suspends the transfer of personal data users from the EU to the United States, which the technology company has five months to comply with.

Elizabeth Dawara, A founding partner of the law firm Davara Abogados, specializing in information and communication technology (ICT) law, explained in Aristegui en Vivo that the fine relates to the issue the human right to privacy and protection of personal data.

“Europe introduces a regime for personal data that is processed on its territory. Meta sent data from Europe to the US and does not meet European standards in terms of personal data,” Dawara explains.

This is the largest economic sanction imposed in the European Union (EU) on a multinational corporation for data protection violations after a fine of 746 million euros it received. Amazon in 2021.

The Meta fine is related to information disclosed by Edward Snowden in 2013 about access to American intelligence in the Facebook database, in which citizens from all over the world meet, for which the Austrian activist Sherms filed a lawsuit over this.

Following this judgment, the European Commission (EC) abolished the so-called “privacy shield”Until then, there is an agreement by which the European Union and the United States regulate the transfer of data between the two blocks, which plan to conclude a new regulation agreement this year.

Dawara explains that the current agreements between Europe and the United States are complicated by a lot of surveillance and intervention that the US government permits on its territory and lack of regulation which exists in terms of privacy.

“The right to data protection is human rights of the 21st century”Dawara says. “We must continue to work and focus on the rights of citizens.”