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Ireland: Announced investigation into Facebook for alleged user personal data breach

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Announced investigation into Facebook for alleged user personal data breach

On 14 April 2021, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced the beginning of an own-initiative investigation into Facebook under section 110 of the Data Protection Act 2018. The announcement occurred in response to several foreign media reports alleging that a compiled dataset of Facebook user personal data had been made public.

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Scope

Policy Area
Data governance
Policy Instrument
Data protection regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
platform intermediary: user-generated content
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
data protection authority

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2021-04-14
under deliberation

On 14 April 2021, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced the beginning of an own-init…

2022-11-25
in force

On 25 November 2022, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced it had concluded its inve…

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