Facebook Inc’s German unit was handed a fine of €51,000 (RM228,783) for failing to properly nominate a data protection officer for its local office, a penalty privacy regulators said should still serve as a "warning” to others.
While the punishment seems tiny for the social network giant, it targets the German unit and not the "billion-dollar parent company”, the data protection authority in Hamburg, Germany, said in its 2019 annual report published on Feb 13.
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