Facebook and Instagram operator Meta fined more than 38 billion yen for violating EU data protection regulations
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) accused Meta, the operator of Facebook and Instagram, of €265 million (approximately 38 billion euros) for violating the
Data Protection Commission announces decision in Facebook “Data Scraping” Inquiry | 28/11/2022 | Data Protection Commission
https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/press-releases/data-protection-commission-announces-decision-in-facebook-data-scraping-inquiry
Meta hit with ~$275M GDPR penalty for Facebook data-scraping breach | TechCrunch
Meta found €265m by Irish watchdog for data breach
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2022/1128/1338739-meta-fined-265m-by-irish-data-watchdog/
In April 2021, the DPC launched an investigation that Facebook had leaked personal information of about 533 million people to a hacking forum.
Data Protection Commission starts investigation on Facebook leaking personal information of about 500 million people - GIGAZINE
At that time, Facebook explained that the relevant data was scraped by someone exploiting the function provided before September 2019, and that measures had already been taken.
However, the DPC investigated the processing performed by Meta from May 25, 2018, when the GDPR came into force, to September 2019, when Facebook tampered with the feature in question, violating Article 25 of the GDPR. I concluded that it was.
In response to the DPC's decision, a Meta spokesperson commented, ``We are carefully considering the decision,'' and did not disclose whether it would appeal.
This is the third GDPR-related penalty for Meta, following the 29 billion yen fine for WhatsApp in September 2021 and the 57 billion yen fine for Instagram in September 2022.
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