Meta fined €390 million in Ireland

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Facebook's parent company Meta has been fined €390 million (US$414 million) in Ireland for data protection violations.

The group violated the EU's General Data Protection Regulation with its Facebook and Instagram platforms, the Irish data protection authority DPC announced on Wednesday. Both cases involve personalised advertising and the way Meta collects and processes users' personal data.Meta was fined €210 million for the Facebook violation, and €180 million for the Instagram one.

Corresponding complaints from Belgium and Austria about the company's methods were made on the day that the EU's General Data Protection Regulation came into force in 2018, when Meta was known as Facebook.Before that, the firm had changed its terms and conditions and their legal basis. The Irish authority came to the conclusion that the company had pressured its users to accept certain conditions, as the services would otherwise no longer have been available for them.

 

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