The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million for a 2019 incident wherein the company stored millions of Facebook and Instagram passwords in plain text.
  • WhatYouNeed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Should be like GDPR fines: 4% of your annual global revenue.

    Edit: just read “It has so far fined Meta a total of 2.5 billion euros for breaches under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation’s (GDPR), introduced in 2018, including a record 1.2 billion euro fine in 2023 that Meta is appealing”

    Wow, Meta really likes donating to the EU