Apple Facing Third Irish Data Privacy Investigation (1)

Apple Inc. is facing a third European Union privacy investigation into its data handling practices.

The Irish Data Protection Commission is investigating whether Apple users have sufficient data access rights. The regulator is also probing Apple’s legal basis for using data in behavioral advertising, and the transparency of its privacy policies.

The investigations are part of Irish Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon’s focus on big tech companies’ compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation.

Dixon’s office is also investigating Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Facebook Inc., and Twitter Inc. Dixon is handling 55 open privacy investigations, including 20 into multinational tech ...