Meta-owned Instagram has been fined 405 million euros ($403 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission after it was found that the platform violated European privacy law General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In 2020, the Irish Data Protection Commission kicked off an investigation into Instagram because the platform made accounts of children between the ages…
Instagram Fined Over 400 Million Euros by Ireland for Mishandling Children’s Data
September 6, 2022
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