Meta gets a €265 million fine in Ireland for 2021 Facebook data leak

Today Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced that it has imposed a fine of €265 million on Meta's Irish subsidiary. The reason is a 2021 data breach on Facebook that exposed the phone numbers, locations, and birthdates of 533 million people who were Facebook users from 2018 to 2019. The DPC started its investigation into the matter on April 14, 2021, following media reports about the discovery of this dataset, which was being made available on the internet. The inquiry concerned questions of compliance with the EU's GDPR obligation for "Data Protection by Design and Default",...



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