https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/10/digital-rights-ireland-gdpr-lawsuit-facebook-data-scraping-breach/

Facebook-owner Meta and its lead data protection regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), are facing an interesting legal challenge over a major data-scraping breach that led to a €265 million penalty for Facebook last year under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The legal action, reported earlier by the Irish Examiner, is being brought by the digital rights group, Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) — which is unhappy about the finding by the Irish regulator that no security breach occurred. Instead, in a final decision of November 25 2022 on an own volition enquiry the DPC opened in response to the incident, it found a breach by Meta of the GDPR’s requirement for data protection by design and default. Hence levying a fine.