Another big monetary penalty for Meta. Well, it would be big for most of us, but…. TechCrunch reports:
Meta has been fined €251 million (around $263 million) in the European Union for a Facebook security breach that affected millions of users, which the company disclosed back in September 2018.
The penalty, issued on Tuesday by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) enforcing the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is far from being the largest GDPR fine Meta has been hit with since the regime came into force over five years ago. Still, it is notable as it’s a substantial sanction for a single security incident.
The breach dates back to July 2017, when Facebook rolled out a video upload function that included a “View as” feature, which let the user see their own Facebook page as it would be seen by another user.
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