Three separate investigations into privacy failings at Facebook were announced on 25 April. Ireland's Data Protection Commission has launched an investigation into a privacy breach after "hundreds of thousands" of Facebook and European passwords were stored on the company's servers in plain text. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada announced it would take Facebook to court over privacy law breaches, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Finally, New York attorney general Letitia James announced a probe into the unauthorised collection of 1.5 million email addresses.
Three separate investigations into privacy failings at Facebook were announced on 25 April. Ireland's Data Protection Commission has launched an investigation into a privacy breach after "hundreds of thousands" of Facebook and Instagram passwords were stored on the company's servers in plain text. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada announced it would take Facebook to court over privacy law breaches, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Finally, New York attorney general Letitia James announced a probe into the unauthorised collection of 1.5 million email addresses.