millionaire against Meta. The Irish Data Protection Commission yesterday imposed a sanction of 251 million euros to the company that owns Facebook e Instagram due to a massive leak of data that suffered in 2018.
The Irish body has ruled that hackers were able to access the accounts of 29 million users around the world thanks to a series of errors in the code of their main platform, a bug in security from the company that allowed them to steal your digital keys and other personal information. Some three million people affected are citizens of the European Union.
The Irish Data Protection Commission concludes in its investigation that Meta violated two articles of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the pioneering law that regulates privacy at the community club. Thus, it points out that the company “did not include (…) all the information required (…) to verify compliance” with the regulation and that “it did not guarantee the data protection in the design of the processing systems” or that “only necessary personal data were processed”.
“Facebook profiles may contain, and often do contain, information about matters such as religious or political beliefs, life or sexual orientation and similar matters that a user may wish to disclose only in particular circumstances,” said the Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Protection of Data, Graham Doyle. “By allowing unauthorized exposure of profile information, the vulnerabilities underlying this breach led to a serious risk of misuse of this type of data.”
The Irish organization is , as it has had its European headquarters in Dublin since 2009 due to its tax exemptions.
Meta will appeal the fine
The company run by Mark Zuckerbergthe seventh most valuable in the world, has assured that it will appeal the decision in court, as it emphasizes that it notified European and American regulators of the hacking and took “immediate measures to solve the problem as soon as it was identified.”
In another case, the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia yesterday ratified the first national ruling that moderators exposed to all types of extreme content.
