Data Privacy Compliance
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Facebook (Meta) vs. GDPR – The €1.2 Billion Oopsie
The SituationIn 2023, Facebook’s parent company, Meta, ran into a massive compliance problem. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) had been in place since 2018, but it seems Meta still hadn’t gotten the memo—or maybe they were just hoping no one would notice. Spoiler alert: the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) noticed.
