Privacy body probes Facebook on data leak

COMING on the heels of a social media scandal where private data of more than a million Filipino Facebook users were shared to a third party, the National Privacy Commission (NPC) said that it was investigating the controversy, and has asked the social media giant for pertinent documents on how the personal information of its users were shared.

“We are launching an investigation into Facebook to determine whether there is unauthorized processing of personal data of Filipinos, and other possible violations of the Data Privacy Act of 2012,” an excerpt of the letter sent to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO, read.