Since the fall of 2021, Ireland’s DPC has slapped Meta with 912 million euros in fines, going after the social media titan and its other subsidiaries, Instagram and WhatsApp, for alleged violations of Europe’s signature data privacy law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).At the time, Facebook said malicious actors had abused its contact importer tool to match known phone numbers against the profiles of Facebook users before harvesting additional information from their profiles.“Protecting the privacy and security of people’s data is fundamental to how our business works,” Meta said in Monday’s statement.Unauthorised data scraping is unacceptable and against our rules and we will continue working with our peers on this industry challenge.”The Irish DPC’s decision comes amid broad criticism by privacy advocates that regulators have moved slowly and hesitantly to enforce GDPR, which went into effect in 2018.The largest GDPR fine to date was imposed last year on Amazon (AMZN) for 746 million euros by privacy regulators in Luxembourg who said the way the e-commerce company processes personal data does not comply with the law."