Meta’s WhatsApp subsidiary was fined 5.5 million euros ($5.95 million) on Thursday by Ireland’s Data Privacy Commissioner (DPC) for a further breach of the EU’s privateness legal guidelines.
The DPC, which acts because the EU’s lead privateness regulator for Meta, mentioned WhatsApp should reassess the way it makes use of private information for service enhancements.
Its ruling follows an identical order it issued this month to Meta’s different essential platforms, Facebook and Instagram, which acknowledged Meta should reassess the authorized foundation upon which it targets promoting by way of using private information.
The DPC fined WhatsApp 225 million euros in September 2021 for breaches that occurred over the identical time frame because the grievance handled on Thursday.
It has fined Meta 1.3 billion euros so far and has 10 different inquiries open into its companies.
