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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12107

2 October 2018
SECTORAL POLICIES / Justice
Facebook security breach affecting 50 million users raises questions of data protection ability yet again
Strasbourg, 01/10/2018 (Agence Europe)

As Facebook does its best to raise its profile after the Cambridge Analytica scandal and to convince political leaders that it is finally ready to preserve the independence of elections on its platform (see EUROPE 12097), the social network is now a victim of computer hacking gaining authorised access to nearly 50 million accounts.

The head of the American social network giant, Mark Zuckerberg, announced, on Friday 28 September, that the 'View As' feature had been hacked, made possible by...

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