Nigeria decides to fine Facebook's parent company $220 million

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission of Nigeria announced on the 23rd that Nigeria has decided to impose a fine of $220 million on Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, and its subsidiary WhatsApp. At a press conference held in the Nigerian capital Abuja on the same day, the acting head of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, Adama Abdullahi, stated that after 3 years of intensive investigation, it was determined that Meta Platforms had engaged in practices that deprived Nigerian data subjects of their autonomy, transfer rights, and the right to share personal data. Abdullahi mentioned that in other countries, Meta Platforms allows data subjects to choose whether to share their data, but this is not the case in Nigeria. Therefore, the Nigerian regulatory authority has decided to impose a fine for this discriminatory practice