{"id":151358,"date":"2022-11-28T21:27:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T03:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/meta-fined-e265m-for-not-protecting-facebook-users-data-from-scrapers"},"modified":"2022-11-28T21:27:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T03:27:50","slug":"meta-fined-e265m-for-not-protecting-facebook-users-data-from-scrapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/meta-fined-e265m-for-not-protecting-facebook-users-data-from-scrapers","title":{"rendered":"Meta fined \u20ac265M for not protecting Facebook users\u2019 data from scrapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meta-fined-e265m-for-not-protecting-facebook-users-data-from-scrapers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meta has been fined \u20ac265 million ($275.5 million) by the Irish data protection commission (DPC) for a massive 2021 Facebook data leak exposing the information of hundreds of million users worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>This concludes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/facebook-data-leak-now-under-eu-data-regulator-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\">DPC\u2019s investigation<\/a> of potential GDPR violations by Meta, launched on April 14, 2021, following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/533-million-facebook-users-phone-numbers-leaked-on-hacker-forum\/\" target=\"_blank\">publishing of data belonging to 533 million Facebook users<\/a> on a hacker forum.<\/p>\n<p>The exposed data included personal information, such as mobile numbers, Facebook IDs, names, genders, locations, relationship statuses, occupations, dates of birth, and email addresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has been fined \u20ac265 million ($275.5 million) by the Irish data protection commission (DPC) for a massive 2021 Facebook data leak exposing the information of hundreds of million users worldwide. This concludes the DPC\u2019s investigation of potential GDPR violations by Meta, launched on April 14, 2021, following the publishing of data belonging to 533 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}