2-14. What regulations or restrictions for Facebook have been put in place in Europe and the United States? Do you agree with them? Facebook Faces Fresh Probe After Photo Leak Tim Bradshaw in London December 14, 2018 Facebook has been hit with the broadest data protection investigation yet in Europe after the social media group revealed another leak of private photos belonging to millions of people.

The Irish data protection commission said it had opened a new investigation into Facebook because of its high number of data breaches this year.

The social network said on Friday that it had discovered a problem with the way hundreds of third-party developers accessed photos using its app platform. The flaw leaked private photos that Facebook users had uploaded but not chosen to share publicly.

“Because of this bug, some third-party apps may have had access to a broader set of photos than usual for 12 days between September 13 to September 25, 2018,” Facebook’s engineering director Tomer Bar said. “Currently, we believe this may have affected up to 6.8m users and up to 1,500 apps built by 876 developers.”

The Irish data protection commissioner said in response to Facebook’s revelation that it had opened an investigation into the Silicon Valley company’s compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation—not just on the latest leak but on the broad spread of privacy issues this year.