"There is no immediate disruption to Facebook because the decision includes implementation periods that run until later this year," they added. Max Schrems, the privacy activist behind the original 2013 complaint supporting the case, said: "We are happy to see this decision after ten years of litigation ... Unless U.S. surveillance laws get fixed, Meta will have to fundamentally restructure its systems." The Irish Data Protection Commission said it disagreed with the fine and measure that it was imposing on Meta but had been forced by the pan-European network of national regulators, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), after Dublin's initial decision was challenged by four of its peer regulators in Europe, from Germany, France, Spain and Austria. According to internal discussions released on Monday, the Irish regulator earlier this year vehemently argued against imposing a financial penalty on the social media giant, saying that such a decision would be disproportionate for the alleged privacy abuses.