Irish Watchdog, the data regulators, has imposed afine of EUR 17 Million to Facebook Meta.
The regulators received 12 data breach notifications in 2018.
EU member Ireland has regional headquarters of tech firms including Apple, Google, and Twitter.
It has played a role in policing the blocs strict GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations).
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced the fine on 15 March after an inquiry.
However, the DPC decided and announced that Meta is fined.
The decision was made in consultation with other supervisory authorities of Europe under GDPR rules.
The case is investigated cross-border processing.
DPC received the data breach notifications between June 7, 2018, and December 4, 2018.
As it has failed to inform users about the data process.
