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Facebook Fined EUR 265 Million by Irish Data Privacy Regulator After Investigation Into Data Scraping

Facebook has been hit with a EUR 265 million (roughly Rs. 2,250 crore) fine by Ireland’s data privacy regulator on Monday. The watchdog was investigating the scraping of personal data that was found in a data set from Facebook between May 2018 and September 2019. This is the fourth fine that the DPC has imposed on one of Meta’s companies, and the regulator has 13 more… 

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