New Good against the millionaire TargetIrish Data Protection Commission Posted yesterday A restrictions 251 million euros to the owned company Facebook And Instagram Due to heavy leakage of data The consequences of which had to be borne in 2018.
The Irish body has ruled that hacker were able to access the accounts of 29 million users around the world due to a series of errors in the code of its main platform, a bug Security From the company that allowed them to steal your digital keys and other personal information. Nearly three million people affected are citizens there European Union,
The Irish Data Protection Commission concluded in its investigation that Meta had breached two articles General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the leading law that regulates confidentiality In the community club. Thus, it indicates that the company “did not include all the information necessary (…) to verify compliance”. regulation And that “it was not guaranteed data security in the design of the processing systems” or that “only the necessary personal data was processed”.

“Facebook profiles can and often do contain information about religious or political beliefs, lifestyle or sexual orientation and similar matters, which the user may wish to disclose only in special circumstances,” the Department of Security’s deputy commissioner said. Of Data, Graham Doyle. “By allowing the unauthorized display of profile information, this breach created a serious risk of misuse of this type of data due to the inherent vulnerabilities.”
The Irish body is in charge of approving this giant company social networkBecause its European headquarters has been in Dublin since 2009 due to tax exemptions.
Meta will appeal against the fine
runs the company Mark Zuckerberg, seventh most valuable in the worldhas assured that it will appeal against this decision in court, as it emphasizes that it informed European and US regulators about the hacking and “took immediate measures to solve the problem as soon as it was identified.” Did.”
in another case, Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia Yesterday was confirmed the first national verdict that holds a Meta subcontractor liable for causing psychological harm to its employees, moderators, by exposing them to all types of extreme content.
