Irish regulators slapped Facebook parent Meta with a 265 million-euro ($277 million) fine Monday, the company's latest punishment for breaching strict European Union data privacy rules.
The Data Protection Commission said Meta Platforms infringed sections of the EU rules, known as the General Data Protection Regulation, that require technical and organizational measures aimed at protecting user data.
Meta said the data had been"scraped" from Facebook using tools designed to help people find their friends through phone numbers using search and contact import features. The watchdog said it investigated scraping carried out between May 2018 and September 2019."We made changes to our systems during the time in question, including removing the ability to scrape our features in this way using phone numbers," Meta said in a statement.
It's the latest in a series of punishments that the Irish watchdog has levied against Meta over the past two years.
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