The mercantile court No. 15 of Madrid ordered Meta to pay 455 million euros in penalties to 81 Spanish legacy media companies for violations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation between 2018 and 2023, The Independent reports. The court ruled Meta exercised an unfair market advantage over the companies during the period by processing web users’ personal information to create more effective advertising. “Meta had an advantage that Spanish online media could not match,” the court wrote in a statement.
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