A spokesman for Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) has announced a third probe into Apple regarding privacy and transparency.
The privacy investigation is examining if Apple has complied with the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation privacy law in relation to an access request from a customer. Which “customer” the complaint has been requested by is not specified.
The Irish DPC has launched 20 investigations into multinational technology companies, including highly scrutinized Facebook, who has eight probes, not including two into WhatsApp, a subsidiary, and one into Facebook-owned Instagram.
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