Professor Elam

Dec 26 2022

I don't post on FB Meta, here is hanother reason why I don't

Do you suppose Zuckerberg will admit to doing anything wrong or just pay up?

It's not the company's first such brush with the law. Back in September 2021, the DPC fined Meta because its messaging service WhatsApp had failed to properly explain to users how it was using their data. There are several other areas of Meta's historical privacy practices the DPC is also currently probing. But for now, the company has this week's big fine to contend with.

"Protecting the privacy and security of people's data is fundamental to how our business works," said a spokesman for Meta in a statement. He added that the company had complied with the DPC's investigation and had made changes to the platform in the interim period to prevent scraping of data, including telephone numbers.

"Unauthorized data scraping is unacceptable," he said, adding that Meta was carefully reviewing the DPC's decision.