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Brazil fined Facebook $ 1.6 million

12/31/2019, 3:58:17 AM

The Brazilian Ministry of Justice said that it imposed a fine on the American giant Facebook, amounting to 6.6 million riyals ($ 1.64 million) due to its disclosure of user data in a way that is not right. The ministry added in a statement that this is the first fine applied to Facebook in Brazil this year.


The Brazilian Ministry of Justice said that it imposed a fine on the American giant Facebook, amounting to 6.6 million riyals ($ 1.64 million) because it disclosed the user data in a way that is not right.

The ministry added in a statement that this is the first fine applied to Facebook in Brazil this year and that it results from the misuse of Cambridge Analytica data in 2018.