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<p>We take the protection of personal data and the right to privacy extremely seriously.
The Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) made our data protection laws fit for the digital
age and empowered people to take control of their data.</p><p> </p><p>The DPA and
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) introduced a duty on all organisations including
social media companies to notify certain types of personal data breaches to the Information
Commissioner's Office (ICO).</p><p> </p><p>Under the GDPR, a company may designate
one national regulator in the European Union as its “lead supervisory authority”,
so that it does not have to deal with 28 separate regulators. In the case of Facebook,
the Irish Data Protection authority takes that role and is therefore leading on this
breach.</p><p> </p><p>The ICO is working with its Irish counterpart to ensure that
it fulfils its role to protect UK citizens data. This includes establishing the number
of UK users affected.</p><p> </p>
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