Meta was hit with a tremendous of 265 million euros (roughly $275 million) by the Irish Knowledge Safety Fee, the corporate’s lead regulator for the European Union’s Basic Knowledge Safety Regulation, over an incident final 12 months by which private knowledge from greater than 530 million Fb customers was uncovered on-line.
The DPC additionally imposed a spread of corrective measures.
The regulator fined Meta $402 million in September for violations of the EU’s privateness legal guidelines defending youngsters on-line, together with the default setting being set to public for customers 13 by 17 and letting those that age function enterprise accounts, which reveal their electronic mail addresses and telephone numbers.