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Nigeria’s consumer protection agency, FCCPC, has imposed a $220 million fine (about N330 billion) on Meta Platforms Inc., owners of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, for allegedly abusing the data of their Nigerian users.
According to a statement by the FCCPC chairperson, Adamu Abdullahi, the agency conducted an investigation of Meta’s operations between May 2021 and December 2023.
He said Meta cooperated with the agency during the investigation.
Meta provided some “information/evidence that are in part responsive to document requests and summons…,” Mr Abdulahi wrote.
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The FCCPC said its findings concluded that Meta “over a protracted period of time have engaged in conduct that constitute multiple and repeated … FCCPA and NDPR, particularly, but not limited to abusive, and invasive practices against data subjects/consumers…”
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