In May, the EU slapped Meta with a €1.2 billion fine for transferring EU citizen's data to US-based servers. The following month, the EU's highest court forbade Meta from combining collected user data across its platforms, outside websites and apps without explicit consent from the user. This January, Irish regulators fined Meta €390 million for forcing users to accept personalized ads to use Facebook. Last year, the social media company was fined €265 million for allowing millions of Facebook users' mobile phone numbers and other data from being illegally obtained and posted online. Regardless, Meta's consideration of paid subscriptions could mean more users will see apps redesigning to comply with data and privacy laws.