The logos of Facebook and Twitter are shown on a computer screen. The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation's ‘One Stop Shop’ regime makes Ireland's Data Protection Commission lead regulator of Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Google in the bloc, due to the location of their EU headquarters in the country.
GDPR has been in force since 2018, but the Twitter case is the first using a new dispute resolution system under which one lead national regulator makes a decision before consulting with the other EU national regulators. It had the power to fine Twitter US$60 million over a bug in its Android app identified in early 2019, where some users' protected tweets were made public. The penalty was capped at 2% of annual turnover as it was deemed a less severe infringement.
In its final ruling on Tuesday, the Irish DPC said it had originally sought to impose a fine of US$150,000-US$300,000.
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