{"id":34029,"date":"2021-04-14T18:40:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T01:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34029"},"modified":"2021-04-14T18:40:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T01:40:12","slug":"new-facebook-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34029","title":{"rendered":"NEW FACEBOOK INVESTIGATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland\u2019s privacy agency is launching an investigation into a trove of information from roughly half a billion Facebook users that has been leaked and is circulating online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis dataset was reported to contain personal data relating to approximately 533 million Facebook users worldwide,\u201d the country&#8217;s Data Protection Commission (DPC) said in a release Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DPC engaged with Facebook Ireland in relation to this reported issue, raising queries in relation to GDPR compliance to which Facebook Ireland furnished a number of responses,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Facebook told The Hill the company is fully cooperating with the inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>The origin of the data, which includes profile names, email addresses and phone numbers, is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>The information was posted on an amateur hacking forum earlier this month, but the data appears to be older.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has said that the data was reported on in 2019 and that it has already patched the vulnerability that allowed the information to be scraped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland\u2019s privacy agency is launching an&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34030,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34029\/revisions\/34030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}