EU Fined for Privacy Breach

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The EU Fined Itself for Breaking Its Own Data Privacy Law

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The European Union has been found to have violated its own privacy rules for the first time.

A German citizen used the “Sign in with Facebook” option when registering for a conference through a European Commission webpage.

When the user clicked that button, data about their device, browser, and IP address were transferred through a content delivery network managed by Amazon Web Services and eventually found its way to servers operated by Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms in the United States .

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