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Meta, Meta, Meta, Meta, Meta, Meta

2026-09-10

6 times.

6 times has Meta taken a spot in the top 10 biggest GDPR fines¹.

1. Meta, 1.2 billion Euro, for transferring the data of EU/EEA citizens to the USA. This is the biggest GDPR fine in history thus far.

2. Amazon, 746 million Euro

3. Meta, 405mn Euro, wrongly processing the data of children on Instagram.

4. Meta, 390mn Euro, for lack of clear explanation to Instagram and Facebook users how their data is processed.

5. Tiktok, 345mn Euro

6. Meta, 265mn Euro, for inadequate protection of Facebook users' personal data².

7. Meta, 225mn Euro, for lack of transparency on WhatsApp's privacy policy.

8. Google, 90mn Euro

9. Google, 60mn Euro

10. Meta, 60mn Euro, for the unavailability of an easy way to deny cookes on Facebook's website.

In this list alone, Meta stacks up fines upwards of 2bn Euro. Clearly, they have no respect for users and their data, and haven't got shaken up at all even by fines of this magnitude. Yet, it is still up to the user, whether to continue using their services.

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