In the case of SCL Group, Facebook did not suspend the company from its platform until 2018.
The information was used to help Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential election campaign.
A company of its size and expertise should have known better and it should have done better.
This fine represents 0.00001 percent of Facebooks CEO Mark Zuckerbergs 43 billion ($61.5 billion) fortune.
We considered these contraventions to be so serious we imposed the maximum penalty under the previous legislation.
The fine would inevitably have been significantly higher under the GDPR.
Our work is continuing.
In response to the ICO announcement, Facebook commented that it is reviewing the decision.
source: www.techworm.net
