Irish Data Privacy fined Facebook EUR 265 million. - Kissasian

Irish Data Privacy fined Facebook EUR 265 million. - Kissasian: Following an investigation into data scraping, the Irish Data Privacy Regulator fined Facebook EUR 265 million.

The Irish data protection authorities also required Facebook to take a number of remedial actions to stop data scraping. Following an investigation into data scraping, the Irish Data Privacy Regulator fined Facebook EUR 265 million.

On Monday, Ireland’s data privacy authority fined social networking giant Facebook an additional EUR 265 million (approximately Rs. 2,250 crore), raising the total amount it has penalized parent company Meta to over EUR 1 billion (roughly Rs. 2,250 crore). The fine was the outcome of an investigation that was opened up last year after it was found that a compiled set of personal information had been taken from Facebook between May 2018 and September 2019 and posted online. 

Meta said that it had made improvements to its systems during the time in issue, including eliminating the ability to scrape its features in this manner using phone numbers, and had fully cooperated with the inquiry by Ireland’s Data Privacy Commissioner (DPC).



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