Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has slapped Facebook owner Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (MPIL) with a fine of €265 million ($277 million) for violating user privacy.
The penalty is related to an investigation that began in April last year after it came to light that a collated dataset of Facebook personal data was available online, according to a press release on Nov. 28. Facebook was seen as not having properly safeguarded its platform against being “scraped” for information, due to which user names, birth dates, locations, and other data leaked. The DPC had ordered the platform to take corrective actions on the issue….