Cybersecurity
Facebook's Irish Privacy Probe Nears Conclusion This Summer
- Social media giant is among several inquiries into Big Tech
- Irish data commissioner signals ‘sanctions are significant’
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The first of more than a dozen active investigations into large U.S. technology companies by Ireland’s privacy office could wrap up by the end of the summer, Irish Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon told a congressional panel in Washington Wednesday.
Dixon’s office is investigating companies including Facebook Inc. and its Instagram unit, Twitter Inc., and Apple Inc. for violations of the European Union’s data privacy rules, according to Dixon’s prepared testimony at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on privacy. The office is investigating 17 tech companies among a total of 51 large-scale privacy investigations the office has launched since May 2018, she added.