Not that long ago, a pretty large penalty was issued against META that made headlines all around the world.

The tech firm was fined for an outstanding amount of 1.2 billion € for violating the General Data Protection Regulation rules that basically states that some safeguards have to be in place whenever data is being transferred between EU and USA.

However, even though the penalty is huge, I do not think that we should be fooled too much because of it. A penalty of this size can prove to be pretty much insignificant for a company that makes a net profit of tens of billions of euros on a yearly basis. 

And this is the problem of social media tycoons like META: Europe (and USA I guess) remains unable to police big tech's use of people's data.

This is a sickening verdict that we have to acknowledge and openly oppose.

How? By utilizing Ecency more and more!

With it's last update, the user interface has been further improved - and I for one am absolutely LOVING the changes!

![](https://images.ecency.com/DQmQXt5gCTT9nuiQnJdzmBQS9JRxzHt8fo2stcwLQVRNyPD/348354707_3427794147437545_5436696681364323653_n.jpg)

To all of you lovely Ecency users I am wishing a very nice and productive Friday ahead of you - may the weekend be filled with joy for you all!