The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million for a 2019 incident wherein the company stored millions of Facebook and Instagram passwords in plain text.
  • Emi@ani.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    All fines should be percentage of income instead of some arbitrary number.

  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Considering how old Facebook is, you’d think they would have their shit together when it comes to password security…

    • leisesprecher@feddit.orgEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Facebook is huge and has very diverse teams/departments. It’s absolutely possible the guys who know what security is, and the guys who build app xyz are in different departments, countries, continents.

      The capitalists want us to believe otherwise, but large corporations are just as convoluted and inefficient as a planned economy.