{"id":1754100,"date":"2022-11-28T16:18:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T21:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754100"},"modified":"2022-11-28T16:18:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T21:18:52","slug":"european-union-fines-facebook-276-million-for-not-securing-user-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/european-union-fines-facebook-276-million-for-not-securing-user-data\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union Fines Facebook $276 Million for Not Securing User Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feuropean-union-fines-facebook-276-million-for-not-securing-user-data%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754100&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The European Union&#8217;s main privacy regulator for Facebook slapped the company with a 265 million euro fine\u2014equivalent to $276 million\u2014for lacking safeguards against &#8220;data scrapers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ireland&#8217;s Data Protection Commission, which enforces EU law, on Monday penalized\u00a0Meta, Facebook&#8217;s parent company, for not taking &#8220;sufficient technical and organizational steps to prevent&#8221; the mass collection and publication of more than half-a-billion users&#8217; phone numbers and other profile information, the <em>Wall Street Journal <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/facebook-parent-meta-fined-276-million-in-europe-for-data-scraping-leak-11669640402?mod=hp_lista_pos3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Monday&#8217;s fine stems from disclosures in the spring of 2021 that a hacker had published personal phone numbers and other profile information of more than 530 million Facebook users. In response, Meta said the information stemmed from mass &#8220;scraping&#8221; of public profiles that it said it had discovered and halted in 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The company, at the time known as Facebook, said the data had been gathered by what it said were malicious actors who misused a Facebook tool called &#8220;Contact Importer&#8221; to upload a large volume of phone numbers to see which ones matched the service&#8217;s users. On Monday, the company reiterated that it had removed the ability to use phone numbers to scrape its services in this way in 2019. \u2026\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In addition to the fine, the regulator ordered Meta to change its systems to make such a leak less likely.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is the third fine that the Irish regulator has imposed on the tech giant and its subsidiaries in the last 15 months, costing Meta a total of $900 million. Meta-owned Instagram and WhatsApp in September each faced hundreds of millions of dollars in fines for allegedly mishandling children&#8217;s data and failing to fully disclose how it handles user data, respectively. Meta is appealing both penalties. A spokesman told the\u00a0<em>Journal\u00a0<\/em>that the company has yet to decide if it will appeal the third fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union&#8217;s main privacy regulator for Facebook slapped the company with a 265 million euro fine\u2014equivalent to $276 million\u2014for lacking safeguards against &#8220;data scrapers.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe post European Union Fines Facebook $276 Million for Not Securing User Data appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":1754103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1754103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}