Friday, 24 March, 2023

Meta fined $18.6M by Irish regulators over data breaches

<p>Meta has been fined 17M euros or $18.6M by Ireland&rsquo;s Data Protection Commission (DPC) for data breaches that affected 30M users. An inquiry over 12 data breaches between June 2018 and December 2018 revealed that Meta Platforms infringed the EU&rsquo;s General Data Protection Regulation. A statement by Meta said that the fine was regarding a record-keeping incident from 2018 and since then they have updated their practice to better protect people&rsquo;s information.</p>