Ireland Slaps A Whopping $402 Million Fine On Social Media Site Instagram For Violating Child Privacy Policies

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Dublin, September 6 - The social media platform, Instagram has been slapped with a whopping $402 million fine by Ireland's data privacy regulator, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The photo-sharing and content-creating site has been found violating laws regulating the handling of children's data online.

Instagram has said it will appeal the fine.



According to THR, the Irish government's investigation, which began in 2020, found that Instagram allowed child users aged between 13 and 17 to operate business accounts on Instagram, which facilitated the publication of the users' phone numbers and/or email addresses. That, ruled Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner, was a violation of the country's laws protecting child data online.

A spokesperson for Meta said that Instagram updated its settings over a year ago to address the problem and has since released new features "to keep teens safe and their information private". Instagram disagrees with how the fine was calculated and is carefully reviewing the decision.

The full details of the decision will be published next week.

Stay tuned...