Facebook Hit with UK Maximum £500K Fine in Cambridge Analytica Probe
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office punished Facebook after finding that the social media giant allowed app developers to access the personal information of millions of users without their clear consent.
October 25, 2018 at 04:25 PM
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Facebook is looking to examine British political consulting and data firm Cambridge Analytica's servers following the UK's investigation into a massive data breach. The probe resulted in Facebook being fined the equivalent of more than $640,000 Wednesday for failing to protect user data.
A Facebook spokesperson wrote in an email Thursday that, while the company disputes some of the ICO's findings, it agrees that, “we should have done more to investigate claims about Cambridge Analytica and taken action in 2015.”
“Now that their investigation is complete,” the spokesperson added, “we are hopeful that the ICO will now let us have access to CA [Cambridge Analytica] servers so that we are able to audit the data they received.”
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