News Summary

• Meta has been fined €251 million (around $263 million) in the European Union for a Facebook security breach that affected millions of users
• The penalty, issued on Tuesday by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), is far from the largest GDPR fine Meta has been hit with since the regime came into force over five years ago
• The breach dates back to July 2017, when Facebook rolled out a video upload function that included a “View as” feature