Authority
DPC
Country
Ireland
Date Issued
November 28, 2022
Industry
Technology
Summary
Meta was fined €265 million after personal data of 533 million Facebook users was scraped and published online due to design flaws in the search and contact importer tools. The breach resulted from inadequate security measures and improper data collection mechanisms that failed to prevent unauthorized data extraction.
Violation Types
Data BreachSecurityData Collection
Articles Violated
Art. 25 GDPR
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