Australia begins privacy investigation into Facebook
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia on Thursday said it had begun an investigation to decide whether social media giant Facebook Inc breached its privacy laws, after the company confirmed data from 300,000 Australian users may have been used without authorization. Personal information of up to 87 million users, mostly in the United States, may have been improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, Facebook said on Wednesday, exceeding a media estimate of more than 50 million. A Facebook spokeswoman in Australia said the company would be “fully responsive” to the investigation and had recently updated some privacy settings. It said in a tweet on Wednesday that it received no more than 30 million records from a researcher it hired to collect data about people on Facebook. Australia’s investigation follows comments by New Zealand’s privacy commissioner last week that Facebook had broken laws in that country, a charge the company called disappointing. Australia’s competition regulator is a
5 Apr 2018 ... Australia's investigation follows comments by New Zealand's privacy commissioner last week that Facebook had broken laws in that country, ...