Much of the data appears to been data scraped some time ago from Facebook public profiles,” he also said. “A significant number of the users are EU users. “The newly published dataset seems to comprise the original 2018 (pre-GDPR) dataset and combined with additional records, which may be from a later period,” the DPC’s deputy commissioner, Graham Doyle said in a statement. However, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), Facebook’s lead data supervisor in the EU, told TechCrunch that it’s not abundantly clear whether that’s the case at this point.
And indeed for breaches themselves - as the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) bakes in an expectation of security by design and default.īy pushing the claim that the leaked data is “old” Facebook may be hoping to peddle the idea that it predates the GDPR coming into application (in May 2018). Not least because, under European Union data protection rules, there are stiff penalties for companies that fail to promptly report significant breaches to relevant authorities. There’s plenty of reasons for Facebook to try to downplay yet another data scandal.
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