Facebook faces massive UK fine of around $660,000 after data scandal
- 11-Jul-2018
LONDON: Facebook will be fined £500,000 in the U.K. after the country’s privacy watchdog said its data sharing scandal broke the law. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is hitting the social network with the maximum possible fine it can impose, for two breaches of the U.K.’s Data Protection Act. Facebook failed to safeguard people’s information, the […]
Zuckerberg under pressure to face EU lawmakers over data scandal
- 19-Apr-2018
STRASBOURG: Facebook Inc’s Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg came under pressure from EU lawmakers on Wednesday to come to Europe and shed light on the data breach involving Cambridge Analytica that affected nearly three million Europeans. The world’s largest social network is under fire worldwide after information about nearly 87 million users wrongly ended up in […]