EU Parliament faces data probe a year after attacking Facebook

The EU assembly, which comprises members from across the 28-nation bloc, is being probed for using a US-based political campaigning company to process personal data relating to its elections in May, according to the EU’s in-house privacy watchdog. — Reuters

A year ago the European Parliament attacked Facebook Inc in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Now it’s embroiled in a privacy scandal of its own after using US software company NationBuilder to process political data concerning more than 300,000 people.

The EU assembly, which comprises members from across the 28-nation bloc, is being probed for using a US-based political campaigning company to process personal data relating to its elections in May, according to the EU’s in-house privacy watchdog.