Security News > 2020 > January > Facebook Fined $1.65 Mn by Brazil

Brazil on Monday fined Facebook $1.65 million for improperly sharing users' data in a case linked to the global Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Facebook engaged in an "Abusive practice" by allowing data from 443,000 users in Brazil to be unduly available to developers of the application "This is Your Digital Life," according to the Ministry of Justice.

Facebook estimated in 2018 that data from 87 million users were shared with Cambridge Analytica.

Brazil's Ministry of Justice maintains that Facebook did not adequately inform its users "About the consequences of the default privacy settings", especially in relation to the data of "Friends and friends of friends."

Britain and Italy are among countries which also fined Facebook in connection with the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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