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The British Information Regulator ( Information Commisonner's Offic e, or ICO) announced on July 11, 2018 its intention to impose a fine of 500,000 pounds (€ 565,000) on Facebook for violating the data protection law following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. This is the maximum fine that can be imposed by the British agency.
"Marketing targeting can not be detrimental to the rule of law"
Elizabeth Denham, the British Information Commissioner, said that Facebook broke the law by failing to protect users' information and was not transparent about how data was collected by third parties on its platform. " New technologies that use data badytics to target people give political marketing companies the opportunity to reach individual voters, but this can not be done at the expense of transparency, fairness and transparency. compliance with the law " she said in a statement.
The social network is under the influence of several investigations concerning the diversion of personal data of some 87 million users by the political marketing company Cambridge Analytica and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, was recently auditioned by US and European parliamentarians.
"We would have done more in 2015," answers Facebook
Facebook, who can speak before a final decision not taken, said to review the report of the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and added that it would respond shortly. "As we have already said, we should have done more to investigate Cambridge Analytica and take action in 2015" said in a statement Erin Egan, director of privacy protection at Facebook . A defense in the form of mea culpa that resonates particularly after Mark Zuckerberg's apology to the US Senate and then to the European Parliament. "We are working closely with the Office of the Information Commissioner on its investigation of Cambridge Analytica, just as we are doing with US authorities and those in other countries."
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