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In July 2019, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 to approve fining Facebook $5 billion to finally settle the investigation into the data breach. [8] The record-breaking settlement was one of the largest penalties ever assessed by the U.S. government for any violation. [ 75 ]
A German court said on Monday that Facebook users whose data was illegally obtained in 2018 and 2019 were eligible for compensation. The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled that the loss of ...
Facebook has defended its security following its latest data security breach, but has been criticised for failing to apologise to users. In recent days it has emerged that personal data linked to ...
The FTC launched a non-public investigation into Facebook last month after a series of privacy-related scandals, including data breaches, which the agency claimed could violate a previous ...
In August 2007 the code used to generate Facebook's home and search page as visitors browse the site was accidentally made public. [6] [7] A configuration problem on a Facebook server caused the PHP code to be displayed instead of the web page the code should have created, raising concerns about how secure private data on the site was.
October 3, 2019: Turkey v. Facebook, Inc. On October 3, 2019, the Turkish Data Protection Authority sued Facebook for $282,000 after the data of around 281,000 Turkish users was leaked by a data breach, stating that Facebook had violated data protection laws. [79] October 10, 2019: Finco Services, Inc. v. Facebook, Calibra, JLV, Character SF
This data breach impacted roughly 29 million Facebook accounts globally, of which about 3 million were from the EU and EEA. The categories of personal data affected included the user’s full name ...
In 2019, Facebook announced it would start enforcing its ban on users, ... Facebook experienced a major breach in its security, exposing the data of 50 million users.