EU opens probe after leak of 533-million Facebook users’ personal data
Social media platform, which blames ‘malicious actors’ accessing users' contacts, faces an inquiry into a possible breach of General Data Protection Regulations
14 April 2021 - 20:00
Facebook faces a formal probe by its main privacy regulator in the EU after the leak of the personal data of more than half a billion users of the social media service.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission on Wednesday opened an inquiry after media reports earlier in April showing “that a collated data set” of Facebook users’ personal data “had been made available on the internet”, the authority said in a statement...
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