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Meta's Privacy Fine Arrives With Eleven Zeros
· New York time
Meta has been fined $25 billion in a user-data privacy case, BBC Business reports. The fine is the largest to date against Facebook's owner and exceeds an earlier $18 billion deal with California. The comparison gives even a company accustomed to enormous numbers an unusually expensive benchmark. The penalty makes privacy compliance a substantial financial issue for a major U.S. technology business. A fine and an earlier settlement are different kinds of outcomes, but both figures demonstrate the scale of the company's regulatory exposure. For investors assessing the costs of operating a vast social platform, this is no minor administrative expense. The familiar corporate promise to take privacy seriously now has a number beside it large enough to require its own generous allocation of spreadsheet column width.
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