{"id":379523,"date":"2018-10-03T18:12:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T17:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-eu-preparing-to-investigate-facebook-over-latest-data-breach\/"},"modified":"2018-10-03T18:12:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T17:12:20","slug":"prison-planet-com-eu-preparing-to-investigate-facebook-over-latest-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-eu-preparing-to-investigate-facebook-over-latest-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb EU preparing to investigate Facebook over latest data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.co.uk\/news\/2018\/10\/02\/eu-preparing-to-investigate-facebook-over-latest-data-breach\/?guccounter=1\"><strong>PA<\/strong><\/a><br \/>October 3, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>The EU is preparing to investigate Facebook over a data breach which saw 50 million accounts compromised, nearly five million of which are believed to be European users.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Investigators at the Irish Data Protection Commission (IDPC), the lead supervisory authority for Facebook in the EU, are gathering information and establishing the basis for an inquiry under the General Data Protection Regulation introduced this year.<\/p>\n<p>If it is found to have broken the guidelines, the social media giant could face a maximum fine of 1.63 billion dollars (\u00a31.26 billion), or 4% of annual revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Graham Doyle, head of communications at the IDPC, said: \u201cBefore we would launch any investigation there are steps that would have to be taken in relation to information gathering and preparing the scope of an inquiry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.co.uk\/news\/2018\/10\/02\/eu-preparing-to-investigate-facebook-over-latest-data-breach\/?guccounter=1\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Wednesday, October 3, 2018  at  6:12 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/eu-preparing-to-investigate-facebook-over-latest-data-breach.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/eu-preparing-to-investigate-facebook-over-latest-data-breach.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAOctober 3, 2018 The EU is preparing to investigate Facebook over a data breach which saw 50 million accounts compromised, nearly five million of which are believed to be European users. Investigators at the Irish Data Protection Commission (IDPC), the lead supervisory authority for Facebook in the EU, are gathering information and establishing the basis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}