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EU court fines European Commission for breaching its own data privacy laws
The EU court said the bloc's executive authority violated a citizen's rights by transferring some of his personal data to the U.S. without proper safeguards.
A top court has ordered the bloc’s top executive authority to pay €400 (around $410) in damages to a German citizen for breaching its own data protection laws. In a statement, the EU General Court said the European Commission violated the citizen’s rights by transferring some of his personal data to the United States without proper safeguards. But the citizen said information about his IP address, browser and device were transferred to companies in the United States — namely Amazon, which hosts the conference’s website; and Meta, which owns Facebook — which the citizen said violated his rights under the bloc’s data privacy rules.
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