Meta – the owners of Facebook – have been fined nearly £350m for the way they asked permission to use users personal information. The Irish Data Protection Commission found that Facebook had broken EU data protection laws, now Meta have three months to make fix things:
Meta fined €390m over use of data for targeted ads – BBC News
We are about to give away an ebook on cyber security, in exchange for your email – I rejected the suggested wording the web designer proposed for the sign-up page and wrote my own! Not sure I would be fined that much but I wanted it to be right.
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
Further Reading
However this has happened before:
Facebook sued for collecting personal data to target adverts | Meta | The Guardian
