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In 2015, Cambridge Analytica was working for the Donald Trump presidential campaign when it illegally collected and exploited information from around 90M Facebook users to influence the elections. Now, after over a year of litigations and appeals, the social network eventually paid a £500,000 fine to the U.K.’s ICO for its role (failing to keep its users’ personal information secure) in the scandal.
In 2015, Cambridge Analytica was working for the Donald Trump presidential campaign when it illegally collected and exploited information from around 90M Facebook users to influence the elections. Now, after over a year of litigations and appeals, the social network eventually paid a £500,000 fine to the U.K.’s ICO for its role (failing to keep its users’ personal information secure) in the scandal.