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Facebook Faces Irish GDPR Investigation for Half-Billion-User Data Breach

Ireland's Data Protection Commission has launched an investigation into Facebook, after personal information for 533 million of the social network's users appeared for sale online – then free of charge – possibly violating “one or more provisions” of the GDPR and/or the Data Protection Act 2018.

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