The Irish Data Protection Commission has opened an investigation into whether Facebook violated the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) following the leak of 533 million users' data earlier this month. In a statement, the Irish Data Protection Commission said: “The Data Protection Commission (DPC) today launched an own-volition inquiry pursuant to section 110 of the Data Protection Act 2018 in relation to multiple international media reports, which highlighted that a collated dataset of Facebook user personal data had been made available on the internet.
UPDATE: 150421 - Independent.ie reports French minister doubts Irish DPC can handle Facebook data breach. The technology minister has said that the Irish Data Protection Commission was slow to launch an investigation into Facebook following the latest data breach involving 533 million users. Cédric O, France’s secretary of state for digital transition, suggested France and the EU could change the one-stop-shop rules that make Ireland the primary regulator of Facebook and other digital giants. “Inquiry finally launched by the Irish DPC on the Facebook data leak. Let’s hope they respond to the unacceptable situation, which has affected millions of French citizens. If not, we will have to draw some conclusions about the European data protection framework.”
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