Facebook has agreed to pay a fine of the equivalent of 580,000 euros in the Cambride Analytica scandal.
Facebook has now accepted a fine of the equivalent of 580,000 euros. The ICO had already imposed the fine around a year ago, but Facebook initially objected and only now agreed to the demands.
The background is the Cambridge Analytica scandal , which caused a stir in the media last year. Facebook had shared personal data of up to 80 million users with the data analysis company.
However, Facebook itself did not admit any wrongdoing in an agreement with the British data protection authority ICO.
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The 580,000 euros is the maximum penalty that the authorities could impose. If the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) had already been in effect at the time of the violation, the fine would probably have been significantly higher.
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