Rights groups are appalled at data regulators backing Meta in yet another case of a privacy breach.
A Norwegian citizen lodged a complaint in 2024 against Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, for the processing of personal data for marketing purposes.
The complaint was passed on to Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), since Meta’s European headquarters are located there. In April this year, the Irish supervisory body for the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) asked the complainant to settle with Meta.
The complainant refused.
The European Data Protection Board’s (EDPB) guidelines on settlements don’t allow for hush money to close a case when the issue affects a large number of data subjects.
