# Analysis: DPC’s Meta fine heralds a new frontier in children’s privacy

- Type: News
- Source: IAPP
- Date: 2022-09-29
- Original: https://iapp.org/news/a/dpcs-meta-fine-heralds-a-new-frontier-in-childrens-privacy#entry-828
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/6267
- Topics: Social Media, IP Address, Minors, Personal Data, Supervision, Processing

## Summary

> The Irish Data Protection Commission’s 405 million euro fine against Meta represents a “watershed moment” in EU General Data Protection Regulation enforcement, write Bird & Bird’s Head of Privacy and Data Protection, Ireland, Anna Morgan and Associate Heather Catchpole. Morgan and Catchpole said the penalty represents “a critical staging post … for protecting children as users of digital services.” This was also the first GDPR cross-border data processing case involving children’s personal dat

## Full text

The Irish Data Protection Commission’s 405 million euro fine against Meta represents a “watershed moment” in EU General Data Protection Regulation enforcement, write Bird & Bird’s Head of Privacy and Data Protection, Ireland, Anna Morgan and Associate Heather Catchpole. Morgan and Catchpole said the penalty represents “a critical staging post … for protecting children as users of digital services.” This was also the first GDPR cross-border data processing case involving children’s personal data where all of the EU and European Economic Area data protection regulators participated in the Article 60 decision-making process.  
[**Full Story**](https://iapp.org/news/a/a-new-frontier-in-childrens-privacy-the-dpcs-decision-on-instagrams-public-by-default-settings)

## Cited law provisions (1)

### GDPR — gdpr-art-60-en

Cooperation between the lead supervisory authority and the other supervisory authorities concerned

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