Data Protection Authority of Ireland · 5 September 2022
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Non-compliance with general data processing principles
Fine€405,000,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- Data Protection Authority of Ireland
- Decided
- 5 September 2022
- Country
- Ireland
- Sector
- Media, Telecoms and Broadcasting
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2022/IE/005
What happened
The EDPB adopted a binding decision, following which the Irish DPC fined Meta €405,000,000 for the lack of legal grounds for processing contact information on children’s business accounts and ‘public by default’-settings for child users.
Summary from the GDPRhub page for this decision, written by its volunteers, not by Fino. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Rules involved
- Art. 6Lawfulness of processing6(1)Read →
- Art. 12Transparent information, communication and modalities for the exercise of the rights of the data subject12(1)Read →
- Art. 24Responsibility of the controllerRead →
- Art. 35Data protection impact assessmentRead →
- Accountability
- DPIA
- Data principles
- Transparency
- Unlawful processing
Sources
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