Much of the commentary about the European Union’s (EU’s) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) involves the increased fines that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) can levy. There was an ...

The Information Commissioner’s Office said that Facebook had withdrawn its appeal and would accept a fine without admitting any liability. Facebook has agreed to pay a fine of £500,000 following an ...

Facebook has unsurprisingly chosen to contest the decision by the United Kingdom's ICO to slap the company with a £500,000 fine following the Cambridge Analytica scandal earlier this year. Late last ...

Facebook is guilty of two contraventions of the UK Data Protection Act 1998 and could be liable for a monetary penalty up to the maximum allowed under that law of £500,000, according to the ...