Facebook has said the move was 'unintentional' and that it is deleting the data.
Europe's default privacy regulator for Facebook will investigate whether Facebook broke the law after the social network hoovered up more than one million user email contacts without their consent.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission , which is the default privacy regulator for Facebook in Europe, said on Thursday it had launched a"statutory inquiry" into the social network after it admitted collecting the data.of a privacy investigation launched by the US regulators, during its first quarter 2019 earnings call.in April, discovering a notification from Facebook that told people it was importing their email contacts in some circumstances without asking their permission.
The DPC is investigating whether Facebook might have broken the law in Europe, specifically the GDPR, which came into force in May 2018.
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