PostMajor Privacy Concerns and Fines Against Facebook:

Major Privacy Concerns and Fines Against Facebook: • $1.4 billion to Texas (2024) for collecting millions of users' biometric data through facial recognition without permission • €1.2 billion to Ireland DPC (2023) for continuing to transfer EU user data to US servers after the Schrems II ruling • $5 billion to FTC (2019) for deceiving users about their ability to control personal information in the Cambridge Analytica scandal • €210 million to Facebook and €180 million to Instagram (January 2023) for using contractual necessity instead of obtaining user consent for behavioral advertising • $277 million (2022) for data scraping that exposed personal information of 533 million users • €91 million (October 2024) for storing Facebook user passwords in plain text • €265 million (2022) for data-scraping violations • €405 million (2022) for Instagram children's privacy violations • €60 million (2022) for cookie consent violations • €225 million (October 2021) for WhatsApp privacy policy violations • $100 million SEC penalty (2019) for misleading disclosures about risks of misuse of user data • $650 million (2020) to Illinois for facial recognition violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act