Italy's privacy regulator imposes a million Euro
fine on Facebook. Facebook's pre-GDPR data protection
breaches in the context of the Cambridge Analytica fiasco have now
attracted a million Euro fine imposed by the Italian privacy
regulator. The Italian regulator found that Facebook had disclosed
to the third-party "This Is Your Digital Life" app,
personal data of 214,077 Italian users. These users had not been
informed of the sharing of their data and had not given their
consent to such sharing, in violation of Italy's pre-GDPR data
protection law.
Although the data processed by the app was generally the basis
for Cambridge Analytica's attempts to influence the U.S.
presidential elections in 2016, the Italian regulator found that
the data from these Italian users had not been transmitted to
Cambridge Analytica. In determining the fine, the Italian regulator
took into account the size of the database in question as well as
Facebook's economic status and the number of
