{"id":6933,"date":"2022-09-05T17:38:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T15:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/05\/instagram-owner-meta-fined-e405m-over-handling-of-teens-data\/"},"modified":"2022-09-05T17:38:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T15:38:17","slug":"instagram-owner-meta-fined-e405m-over-handling-of-teens-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/05\/instagram-owner-meta-fined-e405m-over-handling-of-teens-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram owner Meta fined \u20ac405m over handling of teens\u2019 data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penalty follows investigation into Instagram setting that allowed teenagers to set up accounts that displayed contact details<\/p>\n<p>Instagram owner Meta has been fined \u20ac405m (\u00a3349m) by the Irish data watchdog for letting teenagers set up accounts that publicly displayed their phone numbers and email addresses.<\/p>\n<p>The Data Protection Commission confirmed the penalty after a two-year investigation into potential breaches of the European Union\u2019s general data protection regulation (GDPR).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/sep\/05\/instagram-owner-meta-fined-405m-over-handling-of-teens-data\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/15330894fa85701e92f7c29790f3503014666cec\/0_254_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=31396f21af04edd9ae47ae80f34abd6d\" title=\"Instagram owner Meta fined \u20ac405m over handling of teens\u2019 data\" \/>Penalty follows investigation into Instagram setting that allowed teenagers to set up accounts that displayed contact details<br \/>\nInstagram owner Meta has been fined \u20ac405m (\u00a3349m) by the Irish data watchdog for letting teenagers set up accounts that publicly displayed their phone numbers and email addresses.<br \/>\nThe Data Protection Commission confirmed the penalty after a two-year investigation into potential breaches of the European Union\u2019s general data protection regulation (GDPR). Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penalty follows investigation into Instagram setting that allowed teenagers to set up accounts that displayed contact details Instagram owner Meta has been fined \u20ac405m (\u00a3349m) by the Irish data watchdog for letting teenagers set up accounts that publicly displayed their phone numbers and email addresses. The Data Protection Commission confirmed the penalty after a two-year &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/05\/instagram-owner-meta-fined-e405m-over-handling-of-teens-data\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Instagram owner Meta fined \u20ac405m over handling of teens\u2019 data<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}