After being used improperly by Cambridge analytical data consultation of millions of users, the British Information Regulator slapped Facebook with a small but symbolic penalty for violation of Facebook Protection Act.
500,000 pounds ($ 663,850) penalty is less than 10 minutes for a $ 590 billion social media firm whose share was unchanged, but the maximum amount is for the first time by the regulator to punish Facebook for Cambridge Anilica Represents the dispute.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the U.S. And European Union MPs have been questioned by how the political consultation received the personal data of 87 million Facebook users from the researcher. The company has promised to improve its policies before the local elections in the UK next year.
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said that Facebook had broken the law due to failing to protect people's information and was not transparent about how data was imposed by others on its platform.
He said, "New technologies that use data analytics to micro-targeted people, gives campaign groups the ability to connect with individual voters, but it can not be at the expense of transparency, fairness and compliance with the law."
Facebook said it was reviewing the report and will respond soon. Before making a final decision on penalties, it can answer the information commissioner's office (ICO).
Facebook's Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan said in a statement, "As we have said earlier, we should have investigated Cambridge analytics claims and do more to take action in 2015," he said in a statement that Was working closely with the ICO and the officials. In consultation on the investigation of the United States and other countries.
Penalties are under UK's old data protection law, although it was replaced by the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May, where companies can be fined up to 4 percent of the revenue for violations.
Charity Privacy International said that regulators were having trouble on Facebook.
"Regulators are using their teeth and are using it. And under EU data protection law GDPR, there is no need to remind Facebook, regulators have very big and more important powers, as well as large There is also the ability to issue a fine, "Frederick Calteiner, Data said that exploitation programs lead to charity.
U.S. The Federal Trade Commission is still investigating Facebook, and the company has not yet been penalized.
Fake news
British MPs have started investigating "fake news" and its impact on election campaigns, and have focused on Cambridge analytic rapidly. The ICO said that he was providing an interim report to help in the inquiry.
Parliamentary inquiry president Damian Collins said, "ICO is saying that Facebook has broken the law, it is necessary that we now know that other applications running on their platform can break data in the same way."
Cambridge Antilica, who was hired by Donald Trump in 2016, has refused his work on the US president's successful election campaign.
It has also been said that, in 2016 to work with the campaign group Leave.EU before the BRICSIT referendum in Britain, no one was working on the campaign.
In the report of the ICO, it has been said that criminal prosecution against the original company SCL elections of Cambridge Analyst will be involved in failing to deal with the enforcement notice of the regulator in the other regulatory action.
It has also been said that he will send a warning letter to 11 political parties so that they can be forced to audit data protection practices.
It was said that both of these were examining the vacation and were being publicists in the referendum, and they issued an enforcement notice for AIQ, which would allow the official BrextyTit campaign to vote for the data made with British citizens Used to work.
An academic David Carroll, trying to recover his data from Cambridge Analyte, said the report strengthened its legal challenge.
He told Reuters in an email, "Our day in the British Court can be within reach."
"Penalty looks like bullets for Facebook ... but if American voters can in any way recover and return our full voter profile, then democracy will have won the day against dark data."