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Meta Platforms Ireland Limited

€265,000,000

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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