{"id":41386,"date":"2019-10-30T15:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T15:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41386"},"modified":"2019-10-30T15:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T15:22:28","slug":"facebook-agrees-to-pay-fine-over-cambridge-analytica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41386","title":{"rendered":"Facebook agrees to pay fine over Cambridge Analytica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN Business)<\/cite>The fight between Facebook and the UK government&#8217;s data regulator over Cambridge Analytica has come to an end.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Facebook has agreed to pay the \u00a3500,000 ($645,000) penalty <a href=\"https:\/\/ico.org.uk\/about-the-ico\/news-and-events\/news-and-blogs\/2019\/10\/statement-on-an-agreement-reached-between-facebook-and-the-ico\/\" target=\"_blank\">imposed by the UK Information Commissioner&#8217;s Office<\/a>, which found the company failed to safeguard user data gathered by political data firm Cambridge Analytica. Facebook will not admit to any liability under the settlement.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The regulator issued the small fine last year, but Facebook appealed the ruling. The ICO and <span>Facebook<\/span> <span>(<span class=\"inlink_chart\"><a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=FB&#038;source=story_quote_link\" class=\"inlink\">FB<\/a><\/span>)<\/span> announced Wednesday that a settlement has now been reached. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN Business)The fight between Facebook and the UK government&#8217;s data regulator over Cambridge Analytica has come to an end.Facebook has agreed to pay the \u00a3500,000 ($645,000) penalty imposed by the UK Information Commissioner&#8217;s Office, which found the company failed to safeguard user data gathered by political data firm Cambridge Analytica. Facebook will not admit&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}