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"Facebook has not adequately protected the privacy of its users, during and after the illegal processing of this data," writes the chief regulator on his website.
The Order therefore decides that Facebook will have to pay a fine of 500,000 pounds. , which equates to 566,000 euros.
"A company of this size and with this expertise should know better and should have done better," the explanation goes on.
87 million victims
The British company Cambridge Analytica had access to data from 87 million Facebook users via Facebook. This data was collected by a gaming application. The users of the application gave permission to transmit their data. But the application also transmitted data from the users' friends, who had not given their consent.
The regulator's investigation shows that data from a million users in the UK have been captured. In the Netherlands, according to Facebook, there are about 90,000 users.
This data was passed on to Cambridge Analytica who, on this basis, helped the politicians campaign. US President Donald Trump also engaged the company during his election campaign.
Facebook avoids heavy fines
Earlier this summer, the OIC released a report of the investigation into the scandal. Facebook had been warned that they were risking this fine.
The fine of 500,000 pounds seems to be low, but that's because the regulator, under the old British law, can not impose a higher fine. And this law applied at the time of the scandal.
If the scandal occurred later, Facebook would have been fined much more. Because, in accordance with the new UK privacy law, entered into force simultaneously with the European AVG, a company could now be fined up to 17 million pounds, or 4% of the figure. annual global business.
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