The committee of the Irish Data Protection (DPC), has issued a Meta-n, with 251 million for breaches of the data to be triggered in 2018 by an error in one of the features of Facebook. The sum total of it has to do with the four of violations of the GDPR (General Regulation of Data Protection). The company's Menlo Park, has announced that it will appeal to.
About 2.8 billion euros in fines and three years in the
About seven years ago, the Meta (as a still Facebook at the same time), introduced a feature to upload the video to provide an option on the “View as” to see how your site i saw another user. Due to a defect, it was possible to use your charger, along with the feature “Happy Birthday Composer” to generate a token that allows access to the user profile to the other.
Between the 14th and the 28th of September, the guilty, the cyber tended to be used in a script to take advantage of the vulnerability, and for access to some 29 million accounts around the world (around 3 million in Europe). Bugs found defektin through the use of over the lead from the charger, and gave to the function.
The weakness allowed for the collection of data, the variety of users, including the name, date of birth, phone number, geographical location, place of work, gender, religion, and posts. For this violation of the serious privacy, THE set-up a fine of 251 million euros.
In detail, the amount of 11 million people, has to do with the sending of the information to not be a complete breach of the data, and not the communication of the remedies. 240 million eurot, the other has to be paid for the failure to comply with the principle of “data protection by design” and not the measures taken to ensure only the processing of the data necessary for a particular purpose.
The Meta is to Big Tech, which has received more fines in Europe for a breach of the GDPR. Taking into account the six in the top 10, and that at the end of September, the total exceeds the 2.8 billion euro).
The company's Menlo Park, has announced that it will appeal to, and it's already been a lot of measures to ensure confidentiality:
This decision relates to an incident in 2018. We took immediate steps to resolve the issue as soon as it was discovered and announced in the way of proactive individuals are affected, and the DPC. We've got a wide range of measures leading to the industry in order to protect the people in the platforms of our own. it will appeal to.
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