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There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Meta has been fined one million crowns ($93,200) per day since Aug. 14 for harvesting user data and using it to target advertising at them.
The owner of Facebook and Instagram had sought a temporary injunction against the order from the Norwegian data regulator, Datatilsynet, which imposed a daily fine for three months.
If the European Data Protection Board agrees with Datatilsynet, it could widen the decision’s territorial scope to the rest of Europe and make the fine permanent.
Meta argued, among other things, that the authority’s decision had been disproportionate, impossible to meet and in violation of other laws, but the court rejected the claims.
“None of these arguments will affect the outcome,” Judge Henning Kristiansen said in his ruling, which also orders Meta to pay Datatilsynet’s case costs.
Meta told a two-day court hearing in August it had already committed to ask for consent from users and that Datatilsynet used an “expedited process” that was unnecessary and did not give the company enough time to answer.
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