The German branch of Facebook was fined by €51,000 because it failed to appoint a data protection officer. Facebook argued that it did in fact appoint a data protection officer in Ireland who acted as a data protection officer for all the local European Facebook branches. The Data Protection Authority of Hamburg, however, argued that Facebook did not notify the German authority about this appointment, and as such, the fine is valid. The reason the fine was relatively small was that Facebook did, after all, appoint a DPO but failed to notify German authorities. The fine was given to Facebook Germany GmbH, which is the local German branch of the company.The fine was issued sometimes in 2019 but was only made public by the Data Protection Authority of Hamburg in February 2020. The exact date of the fine was not revealed.
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