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Facebook was fined $ 5 billion for violation of confidentiality laws

The Federal Trade Commission has fined Facebook $ 5 billion.

This decision was made by the regulator based on the results of a long-standing investigation regarding the practices of the Internet giant, which provided insufficient user privacy.

“It would also represent one of the most aggressive regulatory actions by the Trump administration, and a sign of the government’s willingness to punish one of the country’s biggest and most powerful companies”, — reports New York Times.

US agencies have initiated this investigation after a scandal with involvement of Cambridge Analytica.

Five billion dollars – currently it is a record amount of recovery faced by a technology company. The previous record belongs to Google, in 2012 the corporation was fined $ 22.5 million. Experts say that the loss of five billion hardly hurts Facebook, which last year raised $ 15 billion.

“In the upcoming weeks the much-anticipated settlement still needs final approval from the Justice Department, which rarely rejects settlements reached by the agency”, — writes New York Times.

In addition to the fine, Facebook agreed to a more comprehensive oversight of how it processes user’s data.

Another similar case took place last week when the Office of the Commissioner for Information of the United Kingdom for fined non-compliance with the GDPR the country’s largest airline – British Airways. The amount of the fine was also a record – £ 183 million.

The other day, the hotel chain Marriott faced recovery of £ 99 million ($ 123 million) for non-compliance with European regulations and data leakage, which occurred in 2018.

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Daniel Zimmermann has been writing on security and malware subjects for many years and has been working in the security industry for over 10 years. Daniel was educated at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany and currently lives in New York.

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