Facebook agrees to pay UK fine over Cambridge Analytica scandal

cde.news desk 30 October 2019, 12:48 · 1 min read

epa06746925 (FILE) - Cambridge Analytica's sign at their offices in London, Britain, 21 March 2018 (reissued 18 May 2018). According to media reports, Cambridge Analytica has started bankruptcy proceeding in a New York court, USA on 17 May 2018. The data company and its British parent SCL Elections Ltd are to shut down following the Facebook privacy scandal. EPA-EFE/ANDY RAIN

Facebook has agreed to pay a 500,000-pound fine for breaches of data protection law related to the harvesting of data by consultancy Cambridge Analytica, Britain’s information rights regulator said on Wednesday.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has faced questioning by U.S. and EU lawmakers over how the political consultancy obtained the personal data of 87 million Facebook users from a researcher.

The Information Commissioner’s Office issued the small but symbolic fine last year after it said data from at least 1 million British users had been among the information harvested by Cambridge Analytica and used for political purposes.

On Wednesday the ICO said that in dropping its appeal and agreeing to pay the fine, Facebook had not made an admission of liability.

Facebook said it was pleased to have reached a settlement and the company wished it had done more to investigate the claims about Cambridge Analytica in 2015.

Via The Guardian

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Facebook agrees to pay UK fine over Cambridge Analytica scandal

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