Meta fined €265M for allowing scrapers to steal Facebook’s centralized user data By Cointelegraph

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Meta fined €265M for allowing scrapers to steal Facebook’s centralized user data

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced on Nov. 28 that it has fined Facebook (NASDAQ:) developer Meta €265m for breach of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Specifically, the commission stated that it had fined Meta for failing to design Facebook in such a way that it would protect users from data breaches.

The announcement followed a more than year-long investigation that began in April, 2021. The breach itself occurred even earlier, in late 2019.