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Instagram fined €405M for GDPR violations
- hasperdi 4y agoYay! This brightens my day a little. On the other hand it's just a slap on the wrist for FB.
- tester756 4y ago>slap on the wrist 405M?
- daveoc64 4y agoThe fine sounds like a lot, but Meta's profits last year were $117 billion.
- stark98 4y agoPrevious GDPR infringements have a huge impact on severity of future punishments. If they continue to violate GDPR they risk getting fined 4% of the Meta’s worldwide annual revenue (not profit!) or getting outright banned from processing data of EU citizens which would be absolutely devastating for them.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y ago> outright banned from processing data of EU citizens Enforced how? How would they even force them to pay this fine?
- matsemann 4y agoBlocking / banning companies from buying ads / giving them money.
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- timcavel 4y ago
- varispeed 4y agoIn my opinion they should be forced to close down. When I complained about their GDPR issues they responded with templates, that clearly looked like they didn't read my emails and perhaps some sort of expert system composed the reply based on keyword in my email. After repeatedly trying to get to a human they just stopped responding altogether. I tried to complain to ICO but they weren't interested. So there is that. €405M seems like just a cost of doing business.
- briga 4y agoSo where exactly does the money go after Meta has paid the fine? To the Irish GDPR commission? Towards Irish public services? Into some commissioner's pockets?
- bojan 4y agoI'm not sure if this will go to Ireland's or the EU's budget. But if it goes to the EU's, it is pooled towards the countries' contributions - meaning the member states will have to pay that much less into the EU's budget.