Meta brings court challenge over €265m fine from Irish data protection watchdog

Meta offices in Dublin. The Data Protection Commission imposed the fine on Meta Platforms Ireland Limited after inquiring into media reports that a “collated” set of Facebook personal data was uploaded onto an online forum.

Meta has gone to the High Court in a bid to quash a decision of Ireland’s data protection watchdog to fine it €265m for an alleged breach of EU privacy rules regarding the personal information of about more than 500 million Facebook users.

The Irish-based Data Protection Commission (DPC) imposed the fine on November 25 last year on Meta Platforms Ireland Limited — owner of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp — after inquiring into media reports that a “collated” set of Facebook personal data was uploaded onto an online forum.