Norway asks EU regulator to fine Facebook owner Meta over privacy breach

Norway's data regulator will refer the fine it has imposed on Meta Platforms to the European data authority, it said on Thursday, a move that could make the fine permanent and widen it to the European Union. The owner of Facebook and Instagram has been fined one million crowns ($93,000) per day since Aug. 14, for three months, for breaching users' privacy by harvesting user data and using it to target advertising at them.

($1 = 10.7328 Norwegian crowns)