Meta Was Penalised €265m For Failing To Safeguard Facebook Users Data From Scrapers.
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €265 million ($275.5 million) for a significant 2021 Facebook data leak that exposed the information of hundreds of millions of users worldwide. This closes the DPC’s investigation into possible GDPR violations by Meta, which was opened on April 14, 2021, as…