WhatsApp said it would appeal the decision

Ireland's Data Protection Commission was entrusted with the case because Facebook's European headquarters are situated in the country

Ireland fines WhatsApp for breaching EU privacy laws

The flights will begin operating depending on legal and other regulations related to passenger restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic

The flights are scheduled to start on July 4, and will be operating once a week, on Sundays

Mostar Airport announces charter flights from Italy, Poland and Ireland

Facebook said in a blog post last week that “malicious actors” had obtained the data prior to September 2019 by “scraping” profiles using a vulnerability in the platform’s tool for synching contacts

The regulator said last week that previous datasets were published in 2019 and 2018 relating to a large-scale scraping of the Facebook website, which at the time Facebook said occurred between June 2017 and April 2018, before the GDPR rules came in

Ireland fines WhatsApp for breaching EU privacy laws

Mostar Airport announces charter flights from Italy, Poland and Ireland

Ireland launches inquiry into Facebook after reports of data leak

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Ireland fines WhatsApp for breaching EU privacy laws

Mostar Airport announces charter flights from Italy, Poland and Ireland

Ireland launches inquiry into Facebook after reports of data leak