Meta fined $18.6M under GDPR for 2018 data breaches
By 
Neil Hodge2022-03-15T20:16:00
The Irish Data Protection Commission fined Meta’s Irish subsidiary 17 million euros (U.S. $18.6 million) for a series of personal data breaches that took place nearly four years ago.
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