{"id":8081,"date":"2022-11-28T18:38:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T17:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/28\/meta-fined-e265m-over-data-protection-breach-that-hit-more-than-500m-users\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T18:38:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T17:38:44","slug":"meta-fined-e265m-over-data-protection-breach-that-hit-more-than-500m-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/28\/meta-fined-e265m-over-data-protection-breach-that-hit-more-than-500m-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta fined \u20ac265m over data protection breach that hit more than 500m users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp owner has been fined nearly \u20ac1bn by EU since September 2021<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s owner has been fined \u20ac265m (\u00a3230m) by the Irish data watchdog after a breach that resulted in the details of more than 500 million users being published online.<\/p>\n<p>The Data Protection Commission (DPC) said Meta had infringed two articles of the EU\u2019s data protection laws after details of Facebook users from around the world were scraped from public profiles in 2018 and 2019.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/28\/meta-fined-265m-over-data-breach-affecting-more-than-500m-users\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c82d699e3d462b101d88dd397b6c7534238e5a65\/0_252_5370_3222\/master\/5370.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e4ed98a4fa3d96e8ba63be25128d1e3a\" title=\"Meta fined \u20ac265m over data protection breach that hit more than 500m users\" \/>Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp owner has been fined nearly \u20ac1bn by EU since September 2021<br \/>\nFacebook\u2019s owner has been fined \u20ac265m (\u00a3230m) by the Irish data watchdog after a breach that resulted in the details of more than 500 million users being published online.<br \/>\nThe Data Protection Commission (DPC) said Meta had infringed two articles of the EU\u2019s data protection laws after details of Facebook users from around the world were scraped from public profiles in 2018 and 2019. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp owner has been fined nearly \u20ac1bn by EU since September 2021 Facebook\u2019s owner has been fined \u20ac265m (\u00a3230m) by the Irish data watchdog after a breach that resulted in the details of more than 500 million users being published online. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) said Meta had infringed two articles &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/28\/meta-fined-e265m-over-data-protection-breach-that-hit-more-than-500m-users\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta fined \u20ac265m over data protection breach that hit more than 500m users<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8082,"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\/8081"}],"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=8081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}