Meta seeks to quash €405m fine for violating children’s privacy on Instagram

Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd also seeks that the hearing of its High Court proceedings be "heard otherwise than in public".

Meta claims the DPC decision is in breach of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU and therefore invalid. File picture

Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd, formerly Facebook Ireland, is seeking to bring High Court proceedings to quash a record €405 million in fines for violating children’s privacy on its Instagram service.

Last September, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) imposed the fine over breaches of GDPR whereby mobile phone numbers and email addresses of teenage Instagram users were published automatically under default settings on the app’s “business account” service. This default setting has since been changed by Instagram.