United Kingdom fined Facebook with 565,000 euros for the Cambridge Analytica scandal

It considers proven that the social network did not act correctly nor guaranteed the privacy of its users

   The US network Facebook has been fined today in the United Kingdom with 500,000 pounds (565,000 euros) for allowing a "violation" of the laws on personal data protection in relation to the Cambridge Analytical scandal.

The Office of the Information Commissioner (ICO), the body that oversees compliance with the rules on data protection in the United Kingdom, said today that Facebook allowed the legislation to be violated by allowing access to information about its users without "clear consent".

  Last March there was a scandal when revealed that the British consultancy Cambridge Analytica (which closed in May as a result of this crisis) used an application to collect millions of data from Facebook users, which could be used to influence the president's election campaign of the United States, Donald Trump, in 2016.

Last July, the ICO notified the US company that it intended to apply the highest fine - 500,000 pounds - for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which offered election marketing services.

"Between 2007 and 2014, Facebook processed users' personal information unfairly by allowing those who developed applications to access their information without sufficient clear and informed consent," the ICO said in a statement. "In addition, Facebook failed to keep personal information secure because it failed to make the proper checks on applications and programmers who used its platform," he added.

The ICO added that, even in December 2015, when the use of the data was discovered, Facebook "did not do enough" to ensure that those who used it took action. "A company of its size and experience should have known better and should have done better," said the head of the aforementioned office, Elizabeth Denham