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Facebook owner Meta was hit with a record €1.2bn fine for personal data beaches, Ireland’s privacy watchdog announced today. The tech giant was also ordered to stop the unlawful processing and storing in the US of EU users’ data within six months. European data regulators said Meta failed to comply with a 2020 court decision to prohibit multinationals from transferring personal data across the Atlantic into the US, putting the “fundamental rights and freedoms of data subjects” at risk. The fine follows the introduction of one of the toughest privacy and security laws in the world in 2018 - The EU's landmark General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation. The major fine represents the Data Protection Commission's conclusion of its inquiry into Meta Platforms. Earlier this year, Meta went to the Irish High Court in an effort to quash an earlier fine of €265m by the DPC for an alleged breach of EU privacy rules regarding the personal information of about more than 500 million Facebook users.

France's top administrative court on Wednesday fined the government a record sum for failing to reduce air pollution to acceptable levels.

The Council of State slapped its highest fine ever, 10 million euros ($12 million), on President Emmanuel Macron's government, warning it would do so again within months if the authorities failed to act quickly to combat smog.

The Court, which has become increasingly watchful over the government's environmental record, said measures decided by the government were insufficient to improve air quality, because some might not actually be implemented, and their likely effects had not been properly evaluated.

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Fiat Chrysler hit with record fine by US regulators

US regulators have imposed a record fine of $105m (£67.6m) on Fiat Chrysler over recall failures. Under the agreement with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the automaker will also offer to buy back as many as 1.5 million vehicles. An independent monitor will audit the US-Italian company’s recall performance for three years.

The fine comes days after the firm announced another recall over software faults in one of its models. The $105m fine sets a new record for the NHTSA, topping the previous record of $70m on Japanese car maker Honda in January this year. The regulator accused the auto maker of problems with the execution of 23 vehicle safety recalls covering more than 11 million defective cars.

‘Putting millions at risk’ In a statement, the NHTSA said that Fiat Chrysler had since admitted violations in three areas, “effective and timely recall remedies, notification to vehicle owners and dealers and notifications to NHTSA.

“Fiat Chrysler’s pattern of poor performance put millions of its customers, and the driving public, at risk,” NHTSA administrator Mark Rosekind said. As part of the deal with the regulator, Fiat Chrysler agreed to give the owners of 1.5 million vehicles the option of selling their cars back to the manufacturer.

Included were one million Jeep vehicles with rear fuel tanks that can leak and catch fire in collisions. The fault has been linked to numerous fatal accidents. More than half a million of the cars subject to the buyback offer have faulty suspension parts that might cause a loss of control.

The recalled models covered by the agreement also include the Dodge Ram, as well as Dakota and Chrysler Aspen trucks with vehicles dating back as early as 2008.