Meta - DPO Hub

🇮🇪 DPC fines Meta €91m for failing to safeguard passwords and notify breaches

members – 1 min read

UPDATE 1 Jan: Summary + full decision published! The DPC fines Meta for failing to safeguard users' passwords (storing them in plaintext!) and for notifying the breach too late.

Dec 30, 2024

🇮🇪 DPC fines Meta €251m for failing on data protection by design and default and breach handling

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Meta failed to properly notify and document a breach affecting 3m EEA Facebook users and to build in data protection requirements throughout the design and development cycle.

Dec 18, 2024

CJEU C-446/21 Schrems (Communication of data to the general public) 4 Oct 2024

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A ruling that sparks questions around 'strictly necessary' and 'purpose'. Facebook can't indiscriminately use personal data on or off their platform for personalised ads, without restricting the duration and type of data.

Dec 8, 2024

My Meta Pay or Okay experience - now they're cutting the price with 40%

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Latest: Meta reduces sub prices and offers new free choice with less personalised ads, claiming it "goes beyond what is required in the law". 💸 And gets huge fines: €797.72m from the 🇪🇺 EC for antitrust violations and $25.4m from 🇮🇳 India's competition authority for 2021 privacy notice failures.

Nov 15, 2024

CJEU C-252/21 Meta Platforms and Others (General terms of use of a social network) 'Bundeskartellamt' 4 Jul 2023

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The 'Bundeskartellamt' ruling, where the CJEU applies 'strictly' to the legal bases necessity test for the first time. 🔥 You might rely on legitimate interest for direct marketing, network security or product improvement, but the processing must now meet this higher threshold.

Nov 13, 2024

Dutch DPA on education sector social media marketing

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The DPA stresses that their advice applies generally to all social media and "of great importance" to all educational institutions and similar organisations in 🇳🇱.

Jun 17, 2024

noyb files 11 (!) complaints against Meta for AI training

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noyb has filed 11 DPA complaints to try to stop Meta from using our data for AI training, meant to take effect 26 June ⏰

Jun 6, 2024

EDPB's controversial ‘Consent or Pay’ Opinion is here

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[Updated 24 April with highlighted file + 🎙️] Is the EDPB trying to "rewrite the entire economic model of Big Tech and the adtech industry in the EU"? 🤔 Controversial Opinion just published!

Apr 24, 2024

EDPB publishes Urgent Binding Decision regarding Meta

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NB! This post was updated later with two key items: the actual EDPB decision and the DPC's Enforcement notice.

Dec 7, 2023

Denmark Agency orders Google and Meta to change cookie management

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Meta must change their cookie banner in Denmark. Could this impact their 'pay or OK' model on Facebook?

Nov 23, 2023

The EDPB extends the Meta ban to the entire EEA permanently

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The EDPB makes the Norwegian DPA's ban on Meta's behavioural advertising on Facebook and Instagram permanent and extends it to the entire EEA

Oct 31, 2023

Denmark DPA fine for using Google and Meta cookies illegally

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Oct 6, 2023