Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what discussions his Department has had with Facebook on their data protection arrangements since their announcement on 29 September 2018 of a major data breach at that company.

We take both the protection of personal data and the right to privacy extremely seriously. The Data Protection Act 2018 makes our data protection laws fit for the digital age in which an ever increasing amount of data is being processed and empowers people to take control of their data. As the independent regulator for data protection in the UK, the ICO have been made aware of the issue concerning Facebook and are currently making inquiries with the company. It is appropriate and necessary for the Government to allow the ICO and other relevant authorities to conclude their inquiries and before commenting any further on this issue.