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Issued EUR 210 million fine to Meta Ireland for Facebook GDPR Violations

On 31 December 2022, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) adopted its ruling in the investigation conducted into Meta Platforms Ireland Limited concerning its service Facebook, a user-generated content platform, for its data processing activit…

Scope

Policy Area
Data governance
Policy Instrument
Data protection regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
online advertising provider, platform intermediary: user-generated content
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
data protection authority

Complete timeline of this policy change

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2018-08-20
under deliberation

On 20 August 2018, the Data Protection Commission Ireland (DPC) initiated an investigation into Met…

2022-12-05
under investigation

On 5 December 2022, the European Data Protection Board issued a decision (Binding Decision 3/2022) …

2022-12-31
in force

On 31 December 2022, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) adopted its ruling in the investiga…