The Cambridge Analytica scandal costs Facebook two fines for 10 million euros in Italy
The bad news does not seem to end in 2018 for Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, and reality insists on remembering that the Cambridge Analytica scandal was so big and relevant that forgetting about it will not be something they can do so easily. The United Kingdom became the first country to fine the people of Menlo Park for the case, and although it applied the maximum penalty, everything was about 560,000 euros because it took place before the entry into force of the GDPR.
However, as La Vanguardia picks up from the EFE Agency, the Competition and Market Guarantee Authority (AGCM) of Italy, an institution whose role is similar to the Spanish National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC), has imposed to the company a double fine amounting to 10 million euros.
It considers that Facebook Ireland and Facebook Inc., which began investigating "for alleged violations of the Consumer Code", "misleads users who register on the platform, without informing them adequately [...] that they charge, for commercial purposes, the data provided by them, and more generally, the profitable purposes that underlie the provision of the social network service, highlighting only the free service ".
In addition to receiving a first fine for the reason we have commented, Facebook has also been found guilty for "implementing an aggressive practice." The AGCM alleges that Facebook exerts an undue influence on registered consumers, "who suffer without the express prior consent, therefore unconsciously and automatically, the transmission of their Facebook data to third-party websites and applications for commercial purposes. "
The guarantee institution of the competition in Italy accuses Facebook of selling user data, although in principle the Cambridge Analytica scandal was not about that
As we can see, the conclusion has little to do with the fact that the Cambridge Analytica case was in principle somewhat involuntary and an information gap that was obtained through data intended exclusively for researchers, and whose amount was increased with the fact that data from users and friends of those users was shared.
On the contrary, the agency clearly accused Facebook of selling the data of its users, something that it has come to consider according to recently published internal mails, but which has always defended that it does not market them.
However, as La Vanguardia picks up from the EFE Agency, the Competition and Market Guarantee Authority (AGCM) of Italy, an institution whose role is similar to the Spanish National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC), has imposed to the company a double fine amounting to 10 million euros.
It considers that Facebook Ireland and Facebook Inc., which began investigating "for alleged violations of the Consumer Code", "misleads users who register on the platform, without informing them adequately [...] that they charge, for commercial purposes, the data provided by them, and more generally, the profitable purposes that underlie the provision of the social network service, highlighting only the free service ".
In addition to receiving a first fine for the reason we have commented, Facebook has also been found guilty for "implementing an aggressive practice." The AGCM alleges that Facebook exerts an undue influence on registered consumers, "who suffer without the express prior consent, therefore unconsciously and automatically, the transmission of their Facebook data to third-party websites and applications for commercial purposes. "
The guarantee institution of the competition in Italy accuses Facebook of selling user data, although in principle the Cambridge Analytica scandal was not about that
As we can see, the conclusion has little to do with the fact that the Cambridge Analytica case was in principle somewhat involuntary and an information gap that was obtained through data intended exclusively for researchers, and whose amount was increased with the fact that data from users and friends of those users was shared.
On the contrary, the agency clearly accused Facebook of selling the data of its users, something that it has come to consider according to recently published internal mails, but which has always defended that it does not market them.
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