The Republic of Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Facebook parent company Meta €17 million (US$18.6 million) for violating multiple articles of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) related to a series of 12 data breach notifications that occurred in the latter half of 2018.
The GDPR is an EU regulation that sets comparatively strict standards for the management, processing and protection of user data that went into effect in May 2018. Specifically, the DPC stated, the company failed to institute measures that would allow it to demonstrate compliance with GDPR regulations, under Articles 5(2) and 24(1).
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