Meta klapped with R25-billion fine
Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. was hit by a record €1.2 billion (R25.1 billion) European Union privacy fine and given a deadline to stop shipping users’ data to the US after regulators said it failed to protect personal information from the American...
Instagram slapped with R6.9 billion fine
Meta Platforms has been fined €405 million (R6.9 billion) by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) over how it handles teenagers' data, The Verge reports.
The ruling and fine were finalised on Friday, 2 September 2022, after a two-year...
WhatsApp slapped with R4 billion fine
Facebook Inc.’s WhatsApp was ordered to pay a 225 million-euro (R4 billion) penalty for failing to be transparent about how it handled personal information, its first fine under beefed-up European Union data protection law.
The Irish Data Protection...