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Irish Data Commissioner to crackdown on Meta with EU-wide ban

Facebook-parent to be hit with curbs on using personal data for behavioural advertising

Helen Dixon: Irish Data Protection Commissioner is Meta’s lead privacy watchdog in the Europe. Picture: Bloomberg

Meta is set to be hit by a Europe-wide ban on leveraging the trove of personal data of Facebook and Instagram users to target them with ads — a move the social network giant says ignores its recent moves to give people more control.

The curbs — approved on October 27 by a panel of European regulators responsible for enforcing data privacy rules in the region — will extend temporary measures already in place in ...