The European Union has been fined for breaking its own data protection laws after a court forced it to pay €400 (£335) to a German citizen for transferring his data to the US.

The EU court said the bloc's executive authority violated a citizen's rights by transferring some of his personal data to the U.S. without proper safeguards.

European Union privacy regulations require data shared outside of the bloc to have the same level of protection as inside the EU.

The social media giant will let some users browse eBay listings on its Facebook Marketplace platform after the EU ruled that the link between its classified-ads service and flagship social network undermined competition.

Meta is to start displaying eBay listings in its own Facebook Marketplace platform, in an effort to appease European regulators.

In a first, the EU General Court ruled on Wednesday that the European Commission must pay damages to a German citizen for failing to comply with its own data protection regulations.

The social media company said it's launching a test that will let Facebook users in Germany, France, and the U.S. browse eBay listings directly on its Marketplace service but will still have to complete the transaction on eBay.

The EU ordered Meta to stop tying its classified-ads service to Facebook's sprawling social media platform in November 2024.