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Facebook Losing millions of users personal data

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  An information spill including individual subtleties of countless Facebook users is being explored by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC).   The data set is accepted to contain a blend of Facebook profile names, telephone numbers, areas and different realities about in excess of 530 million individuals.   Facebook says the data is "old", from a formerly revealed leak in 2019.   In any case, the Irish DPC said it will work with Facebook, to ensure that is the situation.   Ireland's controller is basic to such examinations, as Facebook's European base camp is in Dublin, making it a significant controller for the EU.   The latest information dump seems to contain the whole undermined data set from the past spill, which Facebook said it found and fixed over eighteen months prior.   Yet, the dataset has now been distributed for nothing in a hacking gathering, making it substantially more generally accessible.   It covers 533 million indiv