The Republic of Ireland announced that it had fined Facebook $275 million, or the equivalent of €265 million; For the company's violation of the General Data Protection Regulation, after the site allowed itself to obtain sensitive user data between May 2018 and September 2019.
Facebook's fine came after the decision of the Irish Data Protection Commissioners (DPC), and is the fourth fine for platforms owned by Facebook's parent company, Meta, Al Arabin.net reported.
While Facebook's fine seems large, it's not the most significant amount the company has had to pay in the history of the GDPR, according to data collected by Statista.
Amazon was the lead in terms of fines. In July 2021, the Luxembourg data watchdog issued a fine of approximately $774 million at current prices to the European subsidiary of the multi-billion dollar technology company for non-compliance with the General Data Processing Principles.
WhatsApp came fourth in the list of the highest fines after Facebook and Instagram, then Google, and the Swedish fashion company H & M, which violated the General Data Protection Law.
