Facebook plans to appeal a fine issued by the UK’s data watchdog in response to the social media site’s Cambridge Analytica scandal.
An estimated 1 million UK residents were affected by the scandal, which impacted 87 million Facebook users worldwide. Though there was no evidence that any of the UK users’ data was shared by third parties, the company was still hit last month with a US$644,600 fine in the UK after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) ruled that the social media network operator was engaged in “serious breaches of data protection.”
“Facebook failed to sufficiently protect the privacy of its users before, during and after the unlawful processing of this data,” said Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham at the time. “A company of its size and expertise should have known better, and it should have done better.”
However, Facebook will be filing an appeal against the ICO based on its claim that there is no evidence of UK users’ data being used.
“The ICO’s investigation stemmed from concerns that UK citizens’ data may have been impacted by Cambridge Analytica, yet they now have confirmed that they have found no evidence to suggest that information of Facebook users in the UK was ever shared … with Cambridge Analytica, or used by its affiliates in the Brexit referendum,” said Anna Benckert, Facebook’s EMEA VP and associate general counsel, according to reports. “Therefore, the core of the ICO’s argument no longer relates
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