Meta has been fined one million crowns per day since August
14 for breaching users' privacy by harvesting user data and using it to target
advertising at them.
So-called behavioural advertising is a business model common
to Big Tech.
The owner of Facebook and Instagram is seeking a temporary
injunction against the order, which imposes a daily fine for the next three
months.
The fine is valid as Meta is not respecting the European
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), said Hanne Inger Bjurstroem Jahren,
a lawyer representing the regulator, Datatilsynet.
"There is no discussion on whether the company is in
violation of these rules ... Today Meta breaks GDPR rules," she told the
court, speaking on the last day of a two-day hearing.
Meta told the court on Tuesday it had already committed to
asking for consent from users and that Datatilsynet used an "expedited
process" that was unnecessary and did not give the company enough time to
answer.
The regulator has said that it was unclear when, and how,
Meta would seek consent from users and that, in the meantime, users' rights
were being violated.
Datatilsynet could make the fine permanent by referring its
decision to the European Data Protection Board, which has the power to do so if
it agrees with the Norwegian regulator's decision.
That could also widen the decision's territorial scope to
the rest of Europe. Datatilsynet had yet to take this step.
Norway is not a member of the European Union but is part of
the European single market. © Reuters