The
Guardian, 11
July 20018:
Facebook is to be fined
£500,000, the maximum amount possible, for its part in the
Cambridge Analytica scandal, the information commissioner has announced.
The fine is for two
breaches of the Data Protection Act. The Information Commissioner’s Office
(ICO) concluded that Facebook failed
to safeguard its users’ information and that it failed to be transparent about
how that data was harvested by others.
“Facebook has failed to provide the kind of
protections they are required to under the Data Protection Act,” said Elizabeth
Denham, the information commissioner. “Fines and prosecutions punish the bad
actors, but my real goal is to effect change and restore trust and confidence
in our democratic system.”
In the first quarter of
2018, Facebook took £500,000 in revenue every five and a half minutes. Because
of the timing of the breaches, the ICO said it was unable to levy the penalties
introduced by the European General Data Protection (GDPR), which caps fines at
the higher level of €20m (£17m) or 4% of global turnover – in Facebook’s case,
$1.9bn (£1.4bn). The £500,000 cap was set by the Data Protection Act 1998.
As one of the IT whistleblowers described the situation...
Just to sum up. 1) Facebook broke the law. 2) Cambridge Analytica broke the law. 3) Vote Leave broke the law. 4) LeaveEU broke the law. 5) Brexit and Trump were both won through breaking the law. 6) Facebook let it all happen and covered it up. https://t.co/CAOrP5rKry— Christopher Wylie 🏳️🌈 (@chrisinsilico) July 11, 2018
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