Ireland’s DPC launches probe into Facebook leak
The Irish Data Protection Commission has launched an ‘own volition’ inquiry into the leak of data from 500 million Facebook profiles
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Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has initiated an own-volition inquiry under section 110 of the Irish Data Protection Act of 2018 following the leak of a vast tranche of personal data on Facebook users that had been scraped from the site.
The leaked data was scraped from Facebook some time ago by malicious actors who took advantage of a vulnerability in a contact-sharing feature. This exploit is no longer possible because it was locked down after being discovered, but not before someone had made off with the data.
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Court to rule on Facebook data sharing after Schrems drops legal challenge against Irish regulator
Irish High Court says it will issue a judgment as soon as possible over a draft decision by Ireland’s data protection commissioner to order Facebook to stop the transfer of data about EU citizens to datacentres in the US
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The Irish High Court will issue a judgment on a legal challenge by Facebook to overturn a draft decision by Ireland’s data protection commissioner to suspend the company’s data-sharing with the US.
The news follows a last-minute agreement between privacy campaigner Max Schrems and the data regulator, who were due to be in court today.
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Irish DPA Issues €450,000 Fine Against Twitter for Data Breach Following EDPB Decision under the GDPR Consistency Mechanism Thursday, December 17, 2020
On December 15, 2020, the Irish Data Protection Commission (“DPC”) announced its fine of €450,000 against Twitter International Company (“Twitter”), following its investigation into a breach resulting from a bug in Twitter’s design. The fine is the largest issued by the Irish DPC under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) to date and is also its first against a U.S.-based organization.
The bug in question resulted in protected tweets being changed to unprotected tweets, making them widely available to the public without the user’s knowledge. This bug impacted Twitter users on Android devices who had changed the email address associated with their Twitter accounts. Twitter estimated that 88,726 Twitter users in Europe were affected between September 5, 2017 and January 11,