Facebook to invest $1 billion in first Asian data center in Singapore
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Facebook (FB.O) said on Thursday it will invest more than $1 billion to build its first data center in Asia in Singapore, slated to open in 2022. "This will be our first data center in Asia," Thomas Furlong, Facebook's vice president of infrastructure data centers, said at a press conference with local authorities in Singapore. Facebook said in a statement the 170,000 square meter facility represented an investment of more than S$1.4 billion ($1 billion) and would support hundreds of jobs. Facebook has a number of data centers in the United States as well as Ireland and Sweden, and it is building a facility in Denmark. "The data center isn't country specific to where users are located...it's a dynamic process," said Furlong.UK issues first-ever GDPR notice in connection to Facebook data scandal
furthermore The United Kingdom has issued the first GDPR notice in relation to the Facebook data scandal which saw the data of up to 87 million users harvested and processed without their consent. The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force this year, on May 25. Served by the ICO, the notice has been levied against AggregateIQ Data Services (AIQ). According to the ICO, AIQ was provided with the personal data of UK citizens including names and email addresses. In March, security researchers revealed that the Canadian firm had left a code repository open to the public online, exposing not only microtargeting tools but also political data.EU lawmakers push for cybersecurity, data audit of Facebook
BRUSSELS — European Union lawmakers appear set this month to demand audits of Facebook by Europe's cybersecurity agency and data protection authority in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. A draft resolution submitted Thursday to the EU Parliament's civil liberties and justice committee urged Facebook to accept "a full and independent audit of its platform investigating data protection and security of personal data." Claude Moraes, the chairman of the EU parliamentary committee who drafted the resolution, said the probes "need to be done." It notes "with regret" that Facebook did not send staff with the right technical knowledge to answer lawmakers' questions and "points out that such an approach is detrimental to the trust European citizens have in social platforms." Zuckerberg was questioned in Brussels on May 22, but the lawmakers used up most of the speaking time with their own remarks, leaving the Facebook chief with little time to respond.
Facebook to invest $1 billion in first Asian data center in Singapore
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Facebook (FB.O) said on Thursday it will invest more than $1 billion to build its first data center in Asia in Singapore, slated to open in 2022. "This will be our first data center in Asia," Thomas Furlong, Facebook's vice president of infrastructure data centers, said at a press conference with local authorities in Singapore. Facebook said in a statement the 170,000 square meter facility represented an investment of more than S$1.4 billion ($1 billion) and would support hundreds of jobs. Facebook has a number of data centers in the United States as well as Ireland and Sweden, and it is building a facility in Denmark. "The data center isn't country specific to where users are located...it's a dynamic process," said Furlong.EU lawmakers push for cybersecurity, data audit of Facebook
referring to The United Kingdom has issued the first GDPR notice in relation to the Facebook data scandal which saw the data of up to 87 million users harvested and processed without their consent. The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force this year, on May 25. Served by the ICO, the notice has been levied against AggregateIQ Data Services (AIQ). According to the ICO, AIQ was provided with the personal data of UK citizens including names and email addresses. In March, security researchers revealed that the Canadian firm had left a code repository open to the public online, exposing not only microtargeting tools but also political data.UK issues first-ever GDPR notice in connection to Facebook data scandal
BRUSSELS — European Union lawmakers appear set this month to demand audits of Facebook by Europe's cybersecurity agency and data protection authority in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. A draft resolution submitted Thursday to the EU Parliament's civil liberties and justice committee urged Facebook to accept "a full and independent audit of its platform investigating data protection and security of personal data." Claude Moraes, the chairman of the EU parliamentary committee who drafted the resolution, said the probes "need to be done." It notes "with regret" that Facebook did not send staff with the right technical knowledge to answer lawmakers' questions and "points out that such an approach is detrimental to the trust European citizens have in social platforms." Zuckerberg was questioned in Brussels on May 22, but the lawmakers used up most of the speaking time with their own remarks, leaving the Facebook chief with little time to respond.
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