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Facebook Agrees to Pay $5 Billion Fine and Setup New Privacy Program for 20 Years
2019-07-24 16:19

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today officially confirmed that Facebook has agreed to pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine over privacy violations surrounding the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Besides the multibillion-dollar penalty, the company has also accepted a 20-year-long agreement that enforces it to implement a new organizational framework designed to strengthen its data privacy


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VENDOR LAST 12M #/PRODUCTS LOW MEDIUM HIGH CRITICAL TOTAL VULNS
Facebook 29 0 11 46 54 111
Billion 2 0 1 6 3 10