Facebook gets fined £500,000 by U.K. for Cambridge Analytica ordeal
Facebook is getting hit with the maximum penalty allowable under United Kingdom law for a scandal in which the social media website failed to keep user data out of the hands of the political research firm Cambridge Analytica. The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced on Thursday that it is fining Facebook £500,000 ($664,000) for “serious breaches of data protection law.” The ICO initially announced its intent to levy the fine in July. “Facebook failed to sufficiently protect the privacy of its users before, during and after the unlawful processing of this data. A company of its size and expertise should have known better and it should have done better,” said Elizabeth Denham, the U.K.’s information commissioner said, in a statement. The ICO fine is the maximum that U.K. law allowed at the time the Cambridge Analytica ordeal went down, the office said. That’s based on the Data Protection Act […]
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