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META FINED $277 MILLION FOR LEAK OF HALF A BILLION USERS

 * Fine by Irish watchdog follows probe of EU privacy violations
 * Penalty is third-largest under the EU’s GDPR data law


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Meta Platforms Inc. was slapped with a €265 million ($277 million) fine for
failing to prevent the leak of the personal data of more than half a billion
users of its Facebook service.

The Irish Data Protection Commission, the main privacy watchdog for Meta in the
European Union, levied the fine following a probe that found the social-media
company had failed to apply strict safeguards required under the bloc’s sweeping
General Data Protection Regulation. 




On top of the fine -- the third-biggest under GDPR -- the watchdog ordered
Meta’s Irish unit to make sure its processing complies with the law, according
to an emailed statement on Monday. 



The Irish authority is the lead watchdog for some of Silicon Valley’s biggest
tech firms that have set up an EU base in the country, including Meta. It opened
its probe following revelations that “a collated dataset of Facebook personal
data” had been published on the internet. Personal information on 533 million
Facebook users worldwide reemerged on a hacker website last year, including
their phone numbers and email addresses. 



The investigation looked into “Facebook Search, Facebook Messenger Contact
Importer and Instagram Contact Importer tools in relation to processing carried
out by Meta” between May 2018 and September 2019, the data protection commission
said. 




The social network has previously said the data is old and that the problem had
been found and fixed in 2019.



Meta said in a statement on Monday that “protecting the privacy and security of
people’s data is fundamental to how our business works” and that it had
cooperated fully with regulators.

“We made changes to our systems during the time in question, including removing
the ability to scrape our features in this way using phone numbers,” the company
said. “Unauthorized data scraping is unacceptable and against our rules and we
will continue working with our peers on this industry challenge. We are
reviewing this decision carefully.”



Data watchdogs in Europe saw their powers increased overnight in May 2018, when
the GDPR took effect and gave them the power to levy fines of as much as 4% of a
company’s annual sales.

The biggest penalties under GDPR so far are a record €746 million fine for
Amazon.com Inc. by its lead privacy watchdog in Luxembourg, followed by a €405
million fine for Meta’s Instagram, and a €225 million fine for Meta’s WhatsApp
unit, both by the Irish authority.

(Updates with further company comment in eighth paragraph. A previous version of
the story corrected a typo on the company name.)




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