The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), UK's data protection watchdog has placed a £500,000 fine on Facebook for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.In a statement released on Thursday, the agency said the fine is the maximum allowed under its 1998 data protection rules and would have been higher under the European Union's GDPR."Between 2007 and 2014, Facebook processed the [...]
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Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook chief executive, has told US lawmakers that he was among the 87 million users of the platform whose data was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, a consultancy firm.Appearing before the lawmakers on Wednesday, Zuckerberg denied the allegation that users do not have enough control of their data on Facebook.The 33-year-old told the house committee on energy and [...]

Ikechukwu Eze, spokesman of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has denied dragging the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) into the Cambridge Analytica controversy.Cambridge Analytica is alleged to have attempted to influence the 2015 presidential election.A whistle-blower had told a UK parliamentary committee of how the organisation allegedly hacked into President Muhammadu Buhari’s records and also distributed violent videos to intimidate the president's supporters.Eze [...]