{"id":1754752,"date":"2022-11-29T06:07:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T11:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754752"},"modified":"2022-11-29T10:20:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T15:20:01","slug":"facebook-fined-277-million-for-privacy-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-fined-277-million-for-privacy-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Fined $277 Million for Privacy Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Ffacebook-fined-277-million-for-privacy-violations%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=1754752&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>Ireland\u2019s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has slapped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-facebook\">Facebook<\/a> owner Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (MPIL) with a fine of 265 million euros ($277 million) for violating user privacy.<\/p>\n<p>The penalty is related to an investigation that began in April 2021 after it came to light that a collated dataset of Facebook personal data was available online, according to a DPC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataprotection.ie\/en\/news-media\/press-releases\/data-protection-commission-announces-decision-in-facebook-data-scraping-inquiry\">statement<\/a>\u00a0on Nov. 28. Facebook was seen as not having properly safeguarded its platform against being \u201cscraped\u201d for information, due to which user names, birth dates, locations, and other data leaked. The DPC ordered the platform to take corrective actions on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>The agency looked into Facebook\u2019s implementation of technical and organizational concepts per Article 25 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the data privacy law in the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Article 25 requires businesses to ensure that data protection is designed into the development of business processes for both products and services. As such, privacy settings must, by default, be set at a high level.<\/p>\n<p>The agency conducted a comprehensive inquiry process and cooperated with other data-protection supervisory authorities in the EU, who all agreed with the DPC\u2019s conclusion on the matter, according to the DPC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision, which was adopted on Friday, 25 November 2022, records findings of infringement of Articles 25(1) and 25(2) GDPR. The decision imposed a reprimand and an order requiring MPIL to bring its processing into compliance by taking a range of specified remedial actions within a particular time frame,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/28\/business\/meta-fine-eu-privacy.html\">statement<\/a>, Meta said that \u201cunauthorized data scraping is unacceptable\u201d and is against the company\u2019s rules, according to The New York Times. The firm claimed to have changed its policies to prevent such activities.<\/p>\n<h2>Other Fines<\/h2>\n<p>Meta has been previously fined by the Irish DPC several times. In October 2021, for example, the agency fined Meta roughly $235 million for violations linked to its WhatsApp messaging service. In September, the DPC fined Meta roughly $400 million for mistreating data related to children on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Together with the most recent fines, the Irish DPC has charged Meta with fines totaling more than $900 million. Meta had announced its plans to appeal the agency\u2019s decision on the WhatsApp and Instagram penalties. However, the company hasn\u2019t announced whether it would appeal the latest fine.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is also embroiled in other privacy scandals. A joint investigative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/tax-filing-software-sent-sensitive-user-information-to-facebook-report_4880437.html\">report<\/a> by The Markup and The Verge on Nov. 22 revealed that Meta\u2019s Pixels, a widely used code on Facebook that tracks the online activity of users, allowed it to secretly receive personal financial information via online tax-filing services.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Facebook sent checks\u00a0of up to $397 to 1.4 million people in Illinois as part of compensation for a $650 million class-action lawsuit. The plaintiffs in the suit had blamed the platform for using facial recognition data without gaining user consent.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for Meta didn\u2019t respond to a request by The Epoch Times for comment by press time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-naveen-athrappully\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/NaveenAthrappully.jpg\" alt=\"Naveen Athrappully\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Naveen Athrappully is a news reporter covering business and world events at The Epoch Times.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland\u2019s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has slapped Facebook owner Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (MPIL) with a fine of 265 million euros ($277 million) for violating user privacy.The penalty is related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1695609,"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":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"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\/1754752","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1695609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}