Reminder: Meta was fined 1.2 billion euro by the Irish data protection authority. May 22, 2023 was the enforcement date.
Question: How many euro do you think have been paid as of today, 2nd May 2025?
Question: How many euro do you think have been paid as of today, 2nd May 2025?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
[1] https://www.lexisnexis.co.uk/legal/news/meta-s-irish-appeal-...
> Probably never will, perhaps in exchange for some job creation
That bit I'd be more dubious on. Ireland's courts are very independent (sometimes to the point of comedy, for instance see the incident a decade ago where the courts found that the legal mechanism used to ban most drugs was invalid: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/10/irish-es-are-s... , leading to ecstasy, ketamine etc becoming legal for a day). It's not a US-style highly-politicised court system, and even if the government wanted to influence the eventual outcome, it doesn't really have levers to do so.
They're cranking through the process, but, like, unless the GDPR is found to be _unconstitutional_ (seems implausible, given the enormous amount of constitutional scrutiny that EU law has already had), they're probably looking at paying once the process comes to an end.
> The IDPC issued an administrative fine of EUR €1.2 billion as well as corrective orders requiring Meta Platforms Ireland to suspend the relevant transfers and to bring its processing operations into compliance with Chapter V GDPR by ceasing the unlawful processing, including storage, of such data in the United States. We are appealing this Final Decision and it is currently subject to an interim stay from the Irish High Court.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680125...
That fine got an incredible amount of media attention.
The lack of actually paying it, not so much...