Facebook fined $412 million over scraped profiles

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Facebook fined $412 million over scraped profiles
Ireland's data privacy regulator imposed a 265 million euro (A$412 million) fine on social media giant Facebook on Monday, bringing the total it has fined parent group Meta to almost 1 billion euros. The penalty resulted from an investigation, started last year, into the discovery of a ...

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