UK Data Regulator to Examine Facebook Whistleblower’s Claims

UK Data Regulator to Examine Facebook Whistleblower’s Claims
U.S. online social media and social networking service Facebook's logo on a smartphone screen in Moscow on Oct. 12, 2021. Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images
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The UK’s data protection watchdog is looking into the claims by a Facebook whistleblower to find out whether the social networking giant breached UK law.

Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said on Thursday that her office is studying the publicly available testimony by former Facebook employee Frances Haugen, and that she had also written to Haugen, requesting to see all the evidence she has.