Data Protection Commission seeks answers from LinkedIn over data scrape
Watchdog has contacted LinkedIn days after engaging with Facebook over a separate data leak
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) is seeking answers from LinkedIn amid reports that 500 million users had their personal data scraped from the platform and posted online.
A spokesman for the DPC this evening told the Business Post that the body has “engaged with LinkedIn on this issue”, after Italy’s privacy regulator launched a probe into the breach.
The DPC has sent questions to the company, which has...
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