Instagram received one of the highest penalties under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. Irish data protection watchdog. Instagram fined 405m euros for handling personal data of young people on its own platform.
The fine, the second-highest fine under the GDPR, after the €886m fine imposed on Amazon last year. third, imposed by the Irish regulator on a company owned by Meta. We recall that the group had to pay a fine of € 17 million already at the beginning of the year for other violations of the European GDPR and € 60 million for the management of unstable advertising cookies.
What is the regulator blaming Instagram for?
The Irish regulator launched an investigation into the practice two years ago. public phone numbers and email addresses of young people having professional accounts on the platform and default public accounts for children aged 13 to 17.
Until last summer, Instagram likely automatically shared the contact information of children running a business or creator account. allowing adults to communicate with themr. This app would be Affected millions of children in the European Unionbut exact figures were not given.
Meta said in a statement that it updated its public default a year ago and ” When anyone under 18 joins Instagram, their account is automatically set to private, so they can only see posts they know and adults can’t message teens who don’t follow them “. No meta I do not agree with the way this penalty is calculated and intends to appeal.
