Irish Regulator Fines Meta $275 Million For Violations Of Europe's Data Privacy Law

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Mon, 11/28/2022 - 11:15am

Meta has been fined roughly $275 million by Ireland's data privacy regulator for failing to prevent hackers from siphoning off personal information from more than 500 million Facebook users in a 2019 data leak.

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