Facebook Irish Privacy Probe Outcome Possible Within Months (2)

Facebook Inc. may know by this summer whether it could face billions of dollars in fines stemming from potential violations of the European Union’s data privacy law.

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has been investigating whether the social media giant’s data practices have violated the General Data Protection Regulation.

“We are well advanced, but not at the final stages,” Irish Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon told Bloomberg Law April 5 on the sidelines of the International Privacy + Security Forum in Washington. Dixon said Irish investigators will give her a report “certainly in the next two months.”

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