Facebook parent company hit by €17m fine by Data Protection Commission

Facebook parent company hit by €17m fine by Data Protection Commission

The hefty fine was imposed by the Irish Data Protection Commission (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Facebook parent company Meta has been fined €17m for breaching EU privacy rules.

The fine, imposed by the Data Protection Commission (DPC), comes following an investigation into a series of 12 data breach notifications received by the watchdog between June and December 2018.

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