The computing giant disclosed in a regulatory filing that it had been notified by the European Union’s data watchdog, the Irish Data Protection Commission, of the agency’s intent to levy a fine at the end of a probe into allegations that targeted advertising on LinkedIn ran afoul of the General Data Protection Regulation.
In 2016, Microsoft acquired LinkedIn in a $26 billion deal. The EU recently fined Meta $1.3 billion for not following the bloc’s privacy rulebook.