Facebook agrees to pay fine over Cambridge Analytica data use
30 October 2019 - 14:08
London — Facebook has agreed to pay a £500,000 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 US and EU lawmakers over how the political consultancy obtained the personal data of 87-million Facebook users from a researcher...
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