Meta Faces More EU Fines

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp face more EU privacy fines. The European Data Protection Board issued binding dispute resolution decisions Tuesday in three cases involving the Meta companies. The decisions resolved differing opinions among various data protection authorities about whether the processing of personal data for the performance of a contract is a sound legal basis for behavioral advertising (Facebook and Instagram) or for service improvement (WhatsApp). It's now up to the Irish Data Protection Commission, which has lead jurisdiction, to adopt the EDPB decisions, after which they will be made public, the board said.