Ireland fines Instagram $400 million over handling of teens’ data
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Ireland has fined Instagram a record 405 million euros (about $403 million) for alleged mishandling of teens’ data.
“We adopted our final decision last Friday and it does contain a fine of €405 million,” Graham Doyle, deputy commissioner with the Irish Data Protection Commission, told The Washington Post, adding that full details will be announced next week.
The decision by Ireland’s data privacy watchdog came after a two-year investigation into Instagram’s “business accounts,” which give users more advanced metrics for tracking views and likes but before 2019 were prone to publishing users’ phone numbers and email addresses under default settings. Instagram’s minimum age for users is 13.
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