The Meta fine is over a data breach that saw the personal details of hundreds of millions of Facebook users published online. Meta, the company which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has been fined €265m by the Irish Data Protection Commission .As well as the fine, Meta has been issued with a reprimand and an order requiring it to bring its processing into compliance by taking a range of specified remedial actions within a particular timeframe. Facebook said at the time that the information, some of which had already appeared online a number of years ago, was “scraped”, but not hacked, by malicious actors through a vulnerability in its tools prior to September 2019. What is comment on the legal action against Meta ?
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