A European regulator fined Facebook owner Meta about $276 million, for not better safeguarding users’ phone numbers and other information from so-called data scrapers
A top European regulator fined Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. 265 million euros, equivalent to about $276 million, for not better safeguarding more than half a billion users’ phone numbers and other information from so-called data scrapers.
The fine issued Monday by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, Meta’s main privacy regulator in the European Union, is the latest indication of how authorities in the region are becoming more aggressive in applying the bloc’s privacy law to large technology companies.
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