Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has received yet another severe fine for breaking European data protection regulations.
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), the tech giant’s primary overseer for the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union, announced the €265 million (USD 275 million) fine today (GDPR). Articles 25(1) and 25(2) of the GDPR, which are concerned with data protection by design and default, are found to have been violated, according to the DPC, which confirmed this.
The fine relates to an investigation that the DPC launched on April 14, 2021, in response to media reports that the personal information of more than 530 million Facebook users, including email addresses and mobile phone numbers, had been made publicly available online.
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