The Irish Data Protection Commission says its inquiry has found Meta breached GDPR rules.
, after data from 533 million people in 106 countries was published on a hacking forum having been "scraped" from Facebook years earlier.Meta says it is "reviewing this decision carefully".
"Protecting the privacy and security of people's data is fundamental to how our business works", an official said. "That's why we have cooperated fully with the Irish Data Protection Commission on this important issue."Facebook's search and contact-importing tools for Messenger and Instagram were misused to automatically extract the data between 25 May 2018 and September 2019.
"Because this dataset was so large, because there had been previous instances of scraping on the platform where the issues could have been identified in a more timely way, we ultimately imposed a significant sanction," Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon
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