Failure to comply with regulations to protect citizens' personal data is the biggest stumbling block between tech giants and the European Union The right to privacy is a growing stumbling block among global, usually American, technology companies that operate social networks, online stores and streaming platforms, and the European Union, which has fairly strict regulations around the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Although fines have been imposed on Facebook, Amazon, Google and others for years, recently it was Facebook in Ireland that was fined a record fine of over one billion euros.

Ireland's Data Protection Commission announced that Meta breached the GDPR when it transferred groups of European Facebook users' personal data to the United States without adequately protecting it, and was fined a record €1,2 billion, or $1,3 billion, for doing so. .

It is the largest sentence imposed due to JDPR. So far, the largest fine was 746 million euros, which the EU imposed on Amazon.com. In addition to the fine, the Irish privacy regulator ordered Meta to stop the practice of transferring user data from the EU to the US within five months.