Australia sues Facebook over handling of user data in Cambridge Analytica scandal GlobeBusiness
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.The Australian privacy regulator filed a lawsuit against Facebook Inc, accusing the social media giant of sharing the personal details of more than 300,000 people with political consultant Cambridge Analytica without their knowledge.
“The design of the Facebook platform meant that users were unable to exercise reasonable choice and control about how their personal information was disclosed,” Information Commissioner Angelene Falk said in a statement.The suit sought unspecified damages, adding that each breach of privacy law could draw a maximum penalty of A$1.7 million . The fine would amount to A$529 billion if the court awarded the maximum for each of the 311,127 instances.
“We’ve made major changes to our platforms, in consultation with international regulators, to restrict the information available to app developers, implement new governance protocols and build industry-leading controls to help people protect and manage their data,” she said in a statement.Last July, Facebook was fined a record $5 billion by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission after a probe triggered by the same user personality quiz from 2014 to 2015.
In the months after Trump’s election, Cambridge Analytica registered a business in Australia but never went to work for an Australian political party.In the Australian lawsuit, the Information Commissioner said Facebook did not know the exact nature of the data it shared with Cambridge Analytica’s ‘This Is Your Digital Life’ program, but that it failed to take reasonable steps to protect users’ personal information.
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