Subsequently, the Office of the Information Commissioner (ICO) surveyed Facebook’s data security measures and searched dozens of servers and other devices containing large amounts of data. ICO said on Thursday that Facebook has collected at least 1 million British users’ personal information and put it at risk.
ICO Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham confirmed this, saying that Facebook failed to protect the user’s personal information.
In a statement, Denham said: “We considered these contraventions to be so serious we imposed the maximum penalty under the previous legislation. The fine would inevitably have been significantly higher under the GDPR. One of our main motivations for taking enforcement action is to drive meaningful change in how organisations handle people’s personal data. Our work is continuing. There are still bigger questions to be asked and broader conversations to be had about how technology and democracy interact and whether the legal, ethical and regulatory frameworks we have in place are adequate to protect the principles on which our society is based.”
Affected by this massive user information disclosure, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to attend a hearing in the US and European Parliament to accept questions from lawmakers.
Via: theguardian
