The Competition Authority and Warranty on the Market (AGCM), Italy has informed that it has imposed two fines to the technology giant Facebook by a value of 10 million euros for disclosure of their users ‘ data for commercial purposes and without informing them.
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The guarantor of the competition has reported in a statement of the conclusions of the investigations that began in April of 2018 on Facebook Ireland and its parent company Facebook Inc. by “alleged violations of the Code of the Consumer.”
this Is the largest penalty imposed so far in Europe against Facebook in the wake of the scandal Cambridge Analytica, for which Facebook gave data of millions of users to different companies without your consent, because until now he had been fined in the Uk with 500,000 pounds (565.000 euros). Then the president of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, appeared before the Congress and the Senate to the u.s. and before the European Parliament in Brussels to give explanations about what happened.
“The Authority has found that Facebook (…) induces deceptive to users that are logged in the platform, without informing them properly and immediately, during the activation of the account, they charge, for commercial purposes, of the data supplied by them and, more in general, of the profitable goals that underlie the provision of the service of social networks, highlighting only the free service,” reads the note.
The company was also fined for “implement an aggressive practice” that “exerts an undue influence on consumers who have registered, who are suffering, without the express consent and prior, therefore, unconsciously and automatically, the transmission of your data from Facebook to web sites and applications of third parties with commercial purposes”.
