{"id":19462,"date":"2022-11-29T00:45:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T00:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/meta-fined-274m-in-ireland-for-breaching-europes-general-data-protection-regulation\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T00:45:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T00:45:06","slug":"meta-fined-274m-in-ireland-for-breaching-europes-general-data-protection-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/meta-fined-274m-in-ireland-for-breaching-europes-general-data-protection-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta fined $274M in Ireland for breaching Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., the Irish subsidiary of Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc., has been fined<\/a> \u20ac265 million ($274 million) by Ireland\u2019s Data Protection Commission for breaching the European Union General Data Protection Regulation.<\/p>\n

The commission launched an investigation in April 2021 following media reports that a collected dataset of Facebook personal data had been made available on the internet. The data was related to Facebook Search, Facebook Messanger Contact Importer and Instagram Contact Importer tools that was gathered between May 2018 and September 2019.<\/p>\n

The commission considered whether the published data complied with the GDPR obligation of Data Protection by Design and Default \u2013 Article 25 of the regulation. Having undertaken a comprehensive inquiry, the commission found that Meta breached Articles 25(1) and 25(2) of the GDPR.<\/p>\n

Along with the fine, Meta was also ordered to bring its processing into compliance by taking a range of specified remedial actions within a particular timeframe.<\/p>\n

The fine is not the first time Meta and its subsidiaries have been penalized by Ireland\u2019s regulator and given the company\u2019s track record, it will unlikely be the last time.\u00a0Meta was fined $402 million in September<\/a> after the\u00a0Data Protection Commission found that Instagram had failed to comply with GDPR regulations, $18.7 million in March<\/a> in relation to cybersecurity controls and $267 million in September 2021<\/a> for a GDPR breach involving WhatsApp.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a significant penalty at a time when Meta\u2019s stock price has been in significant decline and in the midst of layoffs<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0Andrew Barratt, vice president at cybersecurity advisory services company Coalfire Systems Inc.<\/a>, told SiliconANGLE. \u201cIt\u2019s yet more bad news showing that the data protection authorities have some significant enforcement powers now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mike Parkin, senior technical engineer at cyber risk management firm Vulcan Cyber Ltd.<\/a>, commented that \u201cas\u00a0we have seen from other recent fines against tech companies, regulators in Europe, especially European Union member countries, take privacy seriously, much more so than regulators in the U.S. do. Given Meta\u2019s history with user data privacy, it seems they got off reasonably light.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCompanies that are used to operating with minimal concern for user data privacy need to understand that we\u2019ve been moving towards stronger protections and user rights for some time, especially in Europe,\u201d Parkin added. \u201cIf they aren\u2019t making good faith efforts to protect that user data, they may face serious financial impacts if threat actors manage to get it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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