US, Canada and Ireland hit Facebook with three investigations in one day

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• Irish authorities are investigating exposure of hundreds millions of user emails
• Meanwhile Canadian privacy watchdogs are probing lax data protection policies
• The New York attorney general is scrutinizing an unauthorized email collection
• This bad day adds to a month of embarrassing breaches at the social media giant

Facebook was hit yesterday with three separate investigations over its handling of users' data from various governmental authorities.

Irish authorities are scrutinizing the exposure of hundreds of millions of user emails in an unencrypted format, while Canada is suing the company for data policy laxes.

In a third investigation, New York’s attorney general is looking into Facebook's unauthorized scraping of user contact lists during site registration.

The probe triplet adds to an increasingly embarrassing month of data breaches and security violations for the social media firm.

The first of the three investigation is looking into a Facebook error that left hundreds of millions of user passwords exposed in an internal plain text file. 

Over in Canada, the country's privacy commissioner reported on Thursday that he is taking Facebook to court after finding that lax practices at the social media giant allowed personal information to be used for political purposes. 

Also on Thursday, the New York State Attorney General's Office announced that it is investigating the company's unauthorised collection of the email contacts of 1.5 million users. Facebook has previously acknowledged that it unintentionally uploaded the contacts. 

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