Facebook scandal not isolated case, UK privacy chief warns


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 05 Jun 2018

Facebook and Twitter logos are seen on a shop window in Malaga, Spain, June 4, 2018. REUTERS/Jon Nazca

Facebook Inc’s privacy missteps could be mirrored across other online platforms, according to a warning to European Union lawmakers from the head of the British data-protection watchdog leading a probe into the Cambridge Analytica scandal. 

Asked by members of the European Parliament if what happened was an isolated case, Elizabeth Denham, who is spearheading the investigations, said it wasn’t. 

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