Facebook appeals its UK fine in Cambridge Analytica scandal

By The Associated Press

LONDON — Facebook has appealed its 500,000-pound ($644,000) fine for failing to protect the privacy of its users in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, arguing that U.K regulators failed to prove that British users were directly affected.

Britain’s Information Commissioner Office levelled the fine after concluding Facebook processed the personal information of users unfairly by giving app developers access to their information without informed consent.

The ICO said a subset of the data was later shared with other organizations, including SCL Group, the parent company of political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, which counted U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign among its clients.

The ICO did not definitively assert that U.K. users had their data shared for campaigning, but said the information was harvested and “put at risk of further misuse.”

The Associated Press

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