Meta's €405 million fine from the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) represents a watershed moment in EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enforcement, according to Bird & Bird's Head of Privacy and Data Protection in Ireland, Anna Morgan and Associate Heather Catchpole. Writing for the IAPP, Morgan and Catchpole said the penalty represents "a critical staging post … for protecting children as users of digital services." It also represents 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.
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