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Johny_D_Doe t1_iy4fs5y wrote

"Monday’s decision is the third time Ireland has fined Meta and its subsidiaries, including WhatsApp and Instagram, in a privacy case over the past 15 months, bringing the combined financial penalties to the equivalent of more than $900 million. The other cases relate to Instagram’s handling of children’s data and WhatsApp’s transparency about how it handles user information."

This is the 4th 3rd fine for them, totalling to some 1bln. There are 9 other cases in progress in Ireland alone.

This does not seem to be much in itself, but continuously ignoring EU rules is not a good long term strategy.

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5kM6v2FMKfN8WU6 t1_iy5omni wrote

Honestly all of those are pretty weak cases, the EU needs to start focusing more on on-platform misuse than 3rd party issues.

This particular case is about a third party that scraped data from Facebook, which is incredibly hard to combat since it does not involve any integration with FB.

If they objective is to just make every single profile private then they should just state that already.

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