Meta said the data was accessed through a vulnerability that it fixed in 2019.
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The dataset included phone numbers, locations, birthdates, Facebook IDs, full names and email addresses of users of the platform from 2018 to 2019. The inquiry was initiated after it was revealed that the personal details of 533 million Facebook users were leaked on a hacking website in April 2021. The decision follows an inquiry investigating data processing carried out by Meta using Facebook Search, Facebook Messenger Contact Importer and Instagram Contact Importer tools between May 25, 2018, and September 2019. The Irish regulator has fined Meta more than any other tech firm and has 10 other inquiries open into the social media group's platforms.Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has issued Meta with a €265m ($275m) fine and a “range of corrective measures” under GDPR relating to a large-scale data breach that was uncovered in 2021. The DPC said that it did not initially propose adding a fine to the suspension order, but that four other EU supervising authorities disagreed and the record fine was included after a ruling by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB). It has now fined Meta a total of 2.5 billion euros for breaches under the bloc's General Data Protection Regulation's (GDPR), introduced in 2018. The Irish watchdog, which is the lead EU regulator for many of the world's top technology companies because of the location of their European headquarters in Ireland, has said the suspension order could create a precedent for other firms.
surveillance laws gets fixed, Meta will likely have to keep EU data in the EU," he said in a statement.
"In my view, the new deal has maybe a 10% chance of not being killed by the CJEU (EU Court of Justice). Schrems, the Austrian privacy campaigner, said Meta's plans to rely on the new deal for transfers going forward was unlikely to be a permanent fix. REUTERS/Dado RuvicĮurope's top court, the European Court of Justice, threw out the two previous pacts over concerns about U.S. officials hoped that the new data protection framework - agreed by Brussels and Washington in March 2022 - may be ready by July.ģD printed Meta and Facebook logos are placed on a laptop keyboard in this illustration. "Without the ability to transfer data across borders, the internet risks being carved up into national and regional silos," Meta said. That would mean its previous warning that a stoppage could force it to suspend Facebook services in Europe would not come to pass. The social media giant reiterated that it expected a new pact facilitating the safe transfer of EU citizens' personal data to the United States would be fully implemented before it has to suspend transfers.
Meta said in a statement that it will appeal the ruling, including the "unjustified and unnecessary fine that "sets a dangerous precedent for countless other companies." It will also seek a stay of the suspension orders through the courts. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. snooping in light of disclosures by former U.S. The battle over where Meta's Facebook stores its data began a decade ago after Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems brought a legal challenge over the risk of U.S. It tops the previous record EU privacy fine of 746 million euros handed by Luxembourg to Inc (AMZN.O) in 2021. The fine, imposed by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), came after Meta continued to transfer data beyond a 2020 EU court ruling that invalidated an EU-U.S. DUBLIN, May 22 (Reuters) - Meta (META.O) was hit with a record 1.2 billion euro ($1.3 billion) fine by its lead European Union privacy regulator over its handling of user information and given five months to stop transferring users' data to the United States.
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