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Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

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Re: Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

#21
To be fair I don’t think I have ever been notified by any company when my data has been leaked and according to haveibeenpwned that has happened quite a few times.

I am not a lawyer, but I find myself wondering if they are binded to GDPR in this case as judging from online articles the actual “leak” itself may have happened prior to May 2018. It also maybe that the nature of the PII itself is not such that it needs to be reported to the users (no passwords, private messages etc...)

Re: Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

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Facebook today closed at a record high of 309, up from 299, on the first trading day after this leak hit the press. It has since increased to a higher record high (currently 312 with 10 minutes left)

What's the maximum fine under GDPR? It's some percentage of global revenue, right?

4%

Re: Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

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Facebook today closed at a record high of 309, up from 299, on the first trading day after this leak hit the press. It has since increased to a higher record high (currently 312 with 10 minutes left)

Priced in, as usual (not even meme-ing).

Re: Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

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Won't that get them in trouble in the EU? I had to check, but the GDPR was implemented in 2018, and the leak was in 2019.

It’s not clear which leak the data is from. From the articles I read there were two leaks that the data may have come from. One in 2018 and one in 2019.

Re: Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

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And they apparently also didn't plan on deleting my PII (phone number was in the leak), even after I permanently deleted my account at FB over 3 years ago. I thought I had the 'right to be forgotten' because of the GDPR, as I'm a European citizen. Has there been any real enforcement of these laws aside from the relatively small fine here and there? I've been blocking FB actively for the last few years, I can't even v…

The data was scraped years ago and just released now. Only the things you shared publicly already, such as your first and last name on Facebook, were "leaked", except for a few private phone numbers.

Re: Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak

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how is this acceptable? i'm glad I quit facebook long ago but this angers me for the people who dont stay up to date on security breaches.

Well this breach is an old breach from 2019. People should stay up to date with security breaches.

Wasnt there some hints that parts of the leaked PII are more recent?
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