The Federal Government of Nigeria has slammed Facebook’s parent company, Meta with a $220 million fine for alleged data privacy breaches.
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) announced the penalty at the weekend, citing violations of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act (FCCPA) 2018 and the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection (Administrative Penalties) Regulations 2020 (APR).
According to Adamu Abdullahi, the FCCPC’s Acting Chief Executive Officer, Meta was found guilty of several infractions, including unauthorized transfer and sharing of Nigerians’ data, cross-border storage violations, discrimination and disparate treatment, abuse of dominance, and tying and bundling practices.
