LONDON (ShareCast) - (Sharecast News) - Social media platform Facebook has been slammed with a €265m fine by Ireland's data privacy regulator over the release of personal data online.
The penalty relates to an inquiry which was opened by the country's Data Protection Commission in April 2021, after publication of more than 530 million Facebook users' personal data - including email addresses and mobile phone numbers.

Parent group Meta has now been fined almost €1bn for various breaches. The latest penalty is the fourth the DPC has levied against one of Meta's companies. In September the watchdog hit its Instagram subsidiary with a record fine of €405m, which Meta plans to appeal.

The regulator oversees Apple, Google, Tiktok and other technology firms as they are headquartered in Ireland and has 40 ongoing probes into such firms, including the 13 involving Meta.

Reporting by Frank Prenesti for Sharecast.com

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