275 Million Dollars Penalty for Facebook Owner Meta!

Meta, the umbrella company of platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has been receiving many penalties from the authorities in recent years. The company under the management of Mark Zuckerberg had recently received a large fine from our country. The Competition Authority had fined the company 346.7 million liras due to its user data policy.

The US technology giant has now received a big penalty from Europe. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) said the company was fined $275 million. explained. The penalty stems from the massive data leak that emerged in 2021.

Information of 533 million Facebook users leaked

Information released in April 2021, 533 million Facebooks showed that the user’s data was leaked. Among this information, which is stated to have been collected between 2018 and 2019, users names, locations, dates of birth and phone numbers was located. Meta stated that after the emergence of this, the leaker accessed the information with a security vulnerability that was fixed in 2019.

DPC, too, soon began investigating these reports and investigating whether Facebook violated European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws. The current punishment was given after it was determined that the law was not obeyed.

The $276 million fine is DPC’s third fine on Meta this year. The regulator first fined $18.6 million in March following a 2018 data breach that exposed the information of nearly 30 million Facebook users, and $402 million in September following an investigation into Instagram’s processing of teen data. With today’s penalty, the authority to the company The sum of his fines this year is 700 million dollars. it got close.