Meta Platforms Inc. is headed for another clash with the European Union after a €200 million ($232 million) fine failed to bring Facebook and Instagram into compliance with a tough new digital law.

A Dutch court hearing a class action lawsuit on Wednesday found that a European subsidiary of Meta , Facebook Ireland, improperly used personal data of Dutch citizens between 2010 and 2020, saying ...

EU member states have the right to impose their own measures to strengthen the position of publishers in their dealings with ...

Meta Platforms does not plan to make further adjustments to its controversial pay-or-consent model, which means the company ...

Regulators found Meta Platforms Ireland Limited failed to properly encrypt and store passwords of the tech giant’s users, levying a $101.7 million fine. File Photo by Terry Schmitt/UPI ...

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) in Ireland has fined Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (MPIL) €91 million ($100 million) for storing in plaintext passwords of hundreds of millions of users.

Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., the Irish subsidiary of Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc., was been fined €265 million ($274 million) today by Ireland's Data Protection Commission for breaching the Eu ...

Ireland’s privacy regulator today fined Meta Platforms Inc. €91 million over a cybersecurity flaw in its internal systems that came to light five years ago. The Data Protection Commission, o ...

The Irish Data Protection Authority (DPC) Tuesday fined Meta Platforms Ireland Limited €17m for a series of data breaches affecting up to 30 million Facebook users that were disclosed to the Irish DPC ...

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced on Friday that it is fining Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (MPIL) 91 million euros over improper password storage. The decision by Commissioners ...

The final decision of the Irish Data Protection Commission (IDPC) in relation to the transfers of EU/EEA Facebook user data by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (Meta Ireland) to its processor, Meta ...

Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd vs The Data Protection Commissioner: A Landmark GDPR Case. The Court of Appeal in Ireland delivered a significant judgment on 13 March 2025 in the case of Meta Platforms ...