Record €225m fine imposed on Whatsapp by Irish regulator for ‘severe’ breaches of privacy law

The breaches affected an “extremely high” number of people, but published ruling was redacted to obscure the estimated number.

“This decision contained a clear instruction that required the [Irish data protection commission] to reassess and increase its proposed fine on the basis of a number of factors contained in the EDPB’s decision and following this reassessment the DPC has imposed a fine of €225 million on WhatsApp,” her office said.

Ms Dixon also imposed a reprimand on the company and an order to bring its processing into compliance by taking a range of specified remedial actions. But Ms Dixon has faced public criticism for a lack of rulings in big tech cases since the GDPR took force in May 2018. The largest previous fine she imposed was a €450,000 sanction late last year on Twitter, the first cross-border penalty under the new regime.

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