On Tuesday 17 December, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Facebook and Instagram’s parent company €251 million for a data protection breach that led to the hacking of numerous user accounts.
In September 2018, over a two-week period, data from 29 million Facebook users, including 3 million Europeans, leaked through a security flaw linked to its video upload function.
While Meta successfully remedied the security problem that caused the leak, it was exacerbated by...