The Federal Trade Commission has whacked Facebook with a record $5 billion fine stemming from the 2018 scandal in which a political consulting firm improperly accessed Facebook user data. The fine comes as a result of settlement talks between the two entities. The consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, scraped data from 87 million Facebook profiles without […]

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