Irish regulators slapped Facebook parent Meta with a $277 million fine, the company's latest punishment for breaching strict European Union data privacy rules.
FILE - Meta's logo can be seen on a sign at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Nov. 9, 2022. Irish regulators slapped Facebook parent Meta with a 265 million euro fine Monday, Nov. 28, 2022 the company's latest punishment for breaching strict European Union data privacy rules.
FILE - Meta's logo can be seen on a sign at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Nov. 9, 2022. Irish regulators slapped Facebook parent Meta with a 265 million euro fine Monday, Nov. 28, 2022 the company's latest punishment for breaching strict European Union data privacy rules. LONDON — Irish regulators slapped Facebook parent Meta with a 265 million-euro 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.into news reports that data on more 533 million users was found dumped online. The data was found on a website for hackers and included names, Facebook IDs, phone numbers, locations, birthdates and email addresses for people from more than 100 countries, according to the reports.
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 the automated 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.
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