Facebook has said the collection of 1.5 million email contacts was 'unintentional' and that it is deleting the data.
about the social network's collection of more than one million user email contacts without their consent.
Business Insider reported on Thursday that Facebook had harvested the contact information since 2016.Visit BusinessInsider.com for more storiesIreland's Data Protection Commission has reached out to Facebook for information as it considers what steps to take about the revelation that Facebook harvested email contacts of 1.5 million users without their consent.that Facebook has collected the contact lists of 1.5 million users new to the social network.
"We are currently engaging with Facebook on this issue and once we receive further information we will decide what steps to take," Graham Doyle, the head of the Irish Data Protection Commission told Business Insider on Thursday. The Irish DPC is the official data regulator in the country, and under GDPR — the EU's data protection law — it is responsible for handling all data protection issues relating to Facebook in the 28-country bloc.
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