Facebook Fined 500,000 Pounds for Cambridge Analytica Scandal

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The UK's Information Commissioner's Office slapped Facebook with 500,000 pound fine for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which translates to about $641,000 USD. The office says "Between 2007 and 2014, Facebook processed the personal information of users unfairly by allowing application developers access to their information without sufficiently clear and informed consent, and allowing access even if users had not downloaded the app, but were simply 'friends' with people who had." The 500,000 pound fine was the maximum allowed under UK law when the investigation took place, but that fine could've been much higher under Europe's new GDPR laws. In light of past scandals, the European Union is calling for a full audit of Facebook, so they could face larger fines in the near future.

"Facebook also failed to keep the personal information secure because it failed to make suitable checks on apps and developers using its platform." Facebook said it was "reviewing" the ICO's decision. "While we respectfully disagree with some of their findings, we have said before that we should have done more to investigate claims about Cambridge Analytica and taken action in 2015," it said in a statement.
 
Lifelite said:
Oh boy, they sure showed them!

It'd be more effective to have someone actually show up to all their houses and smack the shit out of their face.
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Right, would be like we get a fine for 10 cents for something we did wrong.
 
pcgeekesq said:
Never happen. Know your place, peasant: you and the rest of the world exist for their benefit.
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I was given an injunction a moment before posting my feelings about this.
Peasant it is.
 
All I gota say is when it rains it pours. FB is a giant mess and a major target from both hackers and governments.
Who would have thought that a DB of people's everyday lives would be so valuable..... /s
 
This fine would hurt a small to mid sized company of 100-200 people, and even then, they’d be ok. Just have a bad financial year. This does nothing for Facebook. One or two directors salaries - just get rid of a couple of deadbeats and they are even.
 
That fine totally justified everything Facebook and any and all 3rd parties did or did not do with that data.

"Worth it"
- Facebook
 
And who gets this money? The government for having their laws broken or the people who were actually affected?
 
Yea even if every nation in the WORLD fined Facebook 500k (or 620 thousand US) it would be meaningless to facebook. They would either fight it in court because lawyers gotta work and they are on payroll anyway... or they just pay with a clause about not actually admitting culpability.
 
purple_monster said:
very true... companies arent going to ever take privacy seriously unless execs start doing jail time.
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No justice until Zuckerberg is wearing his ankles as earrings every night after lockdown in San Quentin.
 
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