Why it is good news for your privacy that Facebook’s owner has been hit with a record fine over data

It is high time that Meta and other assertive and entitled big tech companies are held accountable, argues James Moore

Meta has been hit with a record fine over privacy (AP)

Wait, so is the EU attempting to break up the internet?

According to the former deputy prime minister, Sir Nick Clegg, who once led one of Britain’s more pro-European political parties, the world wide web “risks being carved up into national and regional silos” as a result of Europe’s regulators.

“At a time where the internet is fracturing under pressure from authoritarian regimes, like-minded democracies should work together to promote and defend the idea of the open internet.”