Facebook has unsurprisingly chosen to contest the decision by the United Kingdom's ICO to slap the company with a £500,000 fine following the Cambridge Analytica scandal earlier this year. Late last ...

Much of the commentary about the European Union’s (EU’s) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) involves the increased fines that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) can levy. There was an ...

Having been issued the penalty last month, the tech giant is disputing it on the basis that the UK data watchdog's investigation into its business found no evidence that data from UK users, harvested ...

The Information Commissioner’s Office said that Facebook had withdrawn its appeal and would accept a fine without admitting any liability. Facebook has agreed to pay a fine of £500,000 following an ...

WhatsApp publicly commits to not share personal data with Facebook following ICO investigation. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has closed an investigation into WhatsApp’s data-sharing ...

Facebook is guilty of two contraventions of the UK Data Protection Act 1998 and could be liable for a monetary penalty up to the maximum allowed under that law of £500,000, according to the ...