{"id":14899,"date":"2019-04-26T00:46:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T00:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/facebook-hit-with-three-privacy-investigations-in-a-single-day.html"},"modified":"2019-04-26T00:46:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T00:46:16","slug":"facebook-hit-with-three-privacy-investigations-in-a-single-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/facebook-hit-with-three-privacy-investigations-in-a-single-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook hit with three privacy investigations in a single day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Third time lucky \u2014 unless you\u2019re Facebook <\/a>.<\/p>\n

The social networking giant was hit Thursday by a trio of investigations over its privacy practices following a particularly tumultuous month of security lapses and privacy violations \u2014 the latest in a string of embarrassing and damaging breaches at the company, much of its own doing.<\/p>\n

First came a probe<\/a> by the Irish data protection authority looking into the breach of \u201chundreds of millions\u201d of Facebook and Instagram user passwords that were stored in plaintext on its servers. The company will be investigated under the European GDPR data protection law<\/a>, which could lead to fines of up to four percent of its global annual revenue for the infringing year \u2014 already some several billions of dollars.<\/p>\n

Then, Canadian authorities confirmed that the beleaguered social networking giant broke its strict privacy laws<\/a>, reports TechCrunch\u2019s Natasha Lomas. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada said it plans to take Facebook to federal court to force the company to correct its \u201cserious contraventions\u201d of Canadian privacy law. The findings came in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal<\/a>, which vacuumed up more than 600,000 profiles of Canadian citizens.<\/p>\n

Lastly, and slightly closer to home, Facebook was hit by its third investigation \u2014 this time by New York attorney general Letitia James. The state chief law enforcer is looking into the recent \u201cunauthorized collection\u201d of 1.5 million user email addresses, which Facebook used for profile verification, but inadvertently also scraped their contact lists.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is time Facebook is held accountable for how it handles consumers\u2019 personal information,\u201d said James in a statement<\/a>. \u201cFacebook has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of respect for consumers\u2019 information while at the same time profiting from mining that data.\u201d<\/p>\n

Facebook spokesperson Jay Nancarrow said the company is \u201cin touch with the New York State attorney general\u2019s office and are responding to their questions on this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

You might think a trifecta of terrible news would be crushing for the social network. Alas, its stock is up close to 6 percent at market close, adding some $40 billion to its value.<\/p>\n

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Mark Zuckerberg is \u2018proud\u2019 of how Facebook handled its scandals this year<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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