DPC fine: Meta, 2018 Facebook breach data breach case

Irish Data Protection Commission · decided Dec 17, 2024 · Decided

Decision

Two inquiries into a September 2018 Facebook data breach that affected about 29 million accounts worldwide, around 3 million in the EU/EEA, covering breach notification and data protection by design.

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