Difficult times for Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta.
The Facebook parent company Meta is to pay a fine of 390 million francs in Ireland for data protection violations. The Irish data protection authority DPC announced on Wednesday that the group had violated the EU General Data Protection Regulation with its Facebook and Instagram platforms.
Both cases deal with personalized advertising and the way in which Meta collects and processes personal data from users. 210 million Swiss francs are due for the Facebook violation and 180 million Swiss francs for Instagram.
Complaints from Belgium and Austria about the methods had already been received in 2018 – on the same day that the EU General Data Protection Regulation came into force. Previously, Meta had changed its terms and conditions and their legal basis. The authority concluded that the company then, to a certain extent, urged its users to accept certain terms, otherwise the services would no longer have been usable for them.
The Irish authority also requires Meta to change its data processing practices within three months. (SDA)