DUBLIN : Ireland's data privacy regulator fined Meta 390 million euros on Wednesday for breaches at its Facebook and Instagram services and said both must reassess the legal basis on how they run advertising based on personal data in the European Union.
It related to a 2018 change in the terms of service at Facebook and Instagram following the introduction of new EU privacy laws where Meta sought to rely on the so-called"contract" legal basis for most of its processing operations. Ireland's Data Privacy Commissioner , which is the lead privacy regulator for many of the world's largest technology companies within the EU, directed Meta to bring its data processing operations into compliance within three months.
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