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Ireland to probe Facebook following massive data leak
Irish authority believes Facebook may have infringed the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation.
The Irish Data Protection Commission on Wednesday opened an investigation into Facebook after data on more than half a billion of the platform’s users appeared online.
- Vincent Manancourt
- Politico
The trove of data — which includes phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names and birth dates — was discovered by Alon Gal of the cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock this month…
In a statement today, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) said it is launching an inquiry because it believes Facebook may have infringed the…