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Brazil fines Facebook $1.6 million for improper sharing of user data

Posted by EU Times on Jan 25th, 2020 // No Comment

Brazil’s Ministry of Justice said on Monday it fined U.S. tech giant Facebook Inc 6.6 million reais ($1.6 million) for improperly sharing user data.

The ministry’s department of consumer protection said it had found that data from 443,000 Facebook users was improperly made available to developers of an App called “thisisyourdigitallife.”

The data was being shared for “questionable” purposes, the ministry said in a statement.

In a statement, the ministry said the fine is the first ever applied to Facebook in Brazil and is related to the misuse of data by Cambridge Analytica in 2018.

Facebook said in an emailed statement that it was evaluating its legal options regarding the case.

“We are focused on protecting people’s privacy,” the company said, adding that it had made changes that restricted “the information which App developers can access.”

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