The Irish data privacy regulator earlier fined Meta for improperly handling teenagers' private data.4.05 billion euros (approximately US$4.03 million) in fines.
The fine is based on Meta's Instagram service's failure to properly protect the privacy data of teenagers. The relevant investigation began in 2020, when the Irish data privacy regulator questioned Instagram for allowing stores to obtain the private data of teenagers aged 13 to 17, including emails and phone numbers associated with the account.
Meta responded that it would appeal the ruling, and also emphasized that it had alreadyUpdate service operation mode, and joinMore privacy protection mechanismsHowever, an investigation by the Irish data privacy regulator found that in the design of Instagram's service, when young users apply to use accounts, the default status will be set to "public" unless the account's public status is manually adjusted to "private".
This fine is the highest fine Meta has faced in the EU to date for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In September last year, the EU fined WhatsApp 9 million euros (about 2018 million US dollars) because it was found to have violated the GDPR in 2.25.
