Meta appeals Nigerian ruling barring ad tracking without consent

Meta has appealed a Lagos High Court judgment ordering it to stop processing Nigerian Facebook and Instagram users' data for behavioural advertising and pay $100,000 in damages. The court ruled that behavioural profiling is not essential to providing the social networks.

• Appeal filed September 30, five days after the High Court ruling
• Court awarded $100,000 in damages plus ₦1 million in costs
• Court found cross-border data transfers violated Nigeria's NDPA 2023
• Meta argues ad-funded data processing is part of its user contract