Facebook hit with €265M fine from Irish privacy regulator
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Facebook (NASDAQ:META) is absorbing a â¬265M fine from Ireland's data privacy regulator Monday over data made available that had been scraped from the site from 2018-2019.
The penalty (about $277M in dollar terms) brings fines issued by Ireland to Meta Platforms to almost â¬1B overall. Ireland's Data Privacy Commissioner had issued a record fine of â¬405M to Instagram in September.

Ireland's watchdog has a key European role in regulating U.S. tech giants as they tend to set up EU headquarters in the country. And it has 13 more inquiries outstanding into Meta Platforms.
Along with the fine, Facebook was also ordered to make a range of corrective measures. Meta says it made changes to its system during the time in question, including removing the ability to scrape features using phone numbers.