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Asia/ East Asia

Japan to order Facebook to improve data protection after mass Cambridge Analytica leak

• It will be the first time for the government’s Personal Information Protection Commission to issue this kind of warning to the social media giant

The Facebook logo is displayed for a photograph on an Apple iPhone. Japan has ordered the social media giant to improve its data protection measures. Photo: Bloomberg

Japan authorities have ordered Facebook to improve its protection of personal information following a massive data breach found earlier this year that impacted 87 million of its users around the world, government sources said on Monday.

It will be the first time for the Japanese government’s Personal Information Protection Commission to issue this kind of warning to the social media giant.