Meta Platforms Ireland Limited has once again been fined by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for EU GDPR violations. This time, the social media giant was fined €91m ($101m) for storing users’ passwords without encryption or cryptographic protection.
The DPC started investigating Meta in April 2019 after it notified
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