Irish regulator proposes 36 million euro Facebook privacy fine - document


FILE PHOTO Austrian lawyer and privacy activist Max Schrems poses after a Reuters interview in Vienna Austria July 16 2020. REUTERSLisi Niesner

FILE PHOTO: Austrian lawyer and privacy activist Max Schrems poses after a Reuters interview in Vienna, Austria, July 16, 2020. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner

DUBLIN (Reuters) -Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has proposed fining Facebook up to 36 million euros ($42 million) in one of more than a dozen probes it has opened into the social media giant, according to a draft decision published by the complainant on Wednesday.

Under European Union 2018 data protection rules, the DPC must now share the preliminary ruling with all concerned EU supervisory authorities and consider their views before making a final verdict.

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