This is just getting worse and worse for Facebook.
The company is now facing an investigation in Ireland. Apparently Ireland’s Data Protection Commission is looking into Facebook’s practices to see whether they violate Europe’s GDPR. Specifically over the fact that the company stored millions of passwords in plan text:
The Data Protection Commission was notified by Facebook that it had discovered that hundreds of millions of user passwords, relating to users of Facebook, Facebook Lite and Instagram, were stored by Facebook in plain text format in its internal servers. We have this week commenced a statutory inquiry in relation to this issue to determine whether Facebook has complied with its obligations under relevant provisions of the GDPR.
This latest investigation is the third one that has popped up recently after Canada took these clowns to court and New York State decided to look into their slurping up of millions of email addresses. You have to believe that more of these investigations are coming. And that would be a good thing as Facebook needs to be introduced to the rule of law and being a good corporate citizen. Because they haven’t been a good corporate citizen and they wouldn’t know what the rule of law is if it hit them in the face.
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Facebook Facing Yet ANOTHER Investigation….. Which Means That Joining Team #DeleteFacebook Is A Really Good Idea
This is just getting worse and worse for Facebook.
The company is now facing an investigation in Ireland. Apparently Ireland’s Data Protection Commission is looking into Facebook’s practices to see whether they violate Europe’s GDPR. Specifically over the fact that the company stored millions of passwords in plan text:
The Data Protection Commission was notified by Facebook that it had discovered that hundreds of millions of user passwords, relating to users of Facebook, Facebook Lite and Instagram, were stored by Facebook in plain text format in its internal servers. We have this week commenced a statutory inquiry in relation to this issue to determine whether Facebook has complied with its obligations under relevant provisions of the GDPR.
This latest investigation is the third one that has popped up recently after Canada took these clowns to court and New York State decided to look into their slurping up of millions of email addresses. You have to believe that more of these investigations are coming. And that would be a good thing as Facebook needs to be introduced to the rule of law and being a good corporate citizen. Because they haven’t been a good corporate citizen and they wouldn’t know what the rule of law is if it hit them in the face.
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