Ireland fines Facebook (Meta) €91 million for storing passwords in plain text

In 2019, an investigation by the Irish Data Protection Commission began after it was detected that Facebookthe social network of the company Meta, had been storing user passwords in plain text. These passwords were accessible by company employees, thus violating the privacy of citizens.

That investigation has declared Meta guilty, and has imposed a fine of 91 million euros. The Irish Data Protection Commission is usually in charge of monitoring that foreign companies that operate throughout Europe comply with data protection law, as they have almost all their headquarters in that country for tax reasons.

The company claimed at the time that only a group of users had been affected, and that the failure had been temporary, being corrected shortly after. However, these allegations and the fact of having notified the authorities of the ruling have not led to the privacy ruling being considered very serious by the Commission.

Unless a subsequent claim is made, this fine will be added to the extensive collection of the company, which has already faced regulators on more occasions for violating the privacy of its users and other controversies.

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