The National Consumer Secretariat (Senacon), an agency linked to the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, fined Facebook R$6.6 million for leaking data from Brazilian users. The notification is published on Official Gazette of the Union (DOU) this Tuesday (23).
The company may have the fine reduced by up to 25% if it decides not to appeal the decision.
Senacon explains that, in 2018, data from users of the social network was passed on to Cambridge Analytica, a British Political Marketing consultancy hired for the election campaign of former US President Donald Trump.
According to the agency, “it is estimated that, at the time, the data of more than 87 million people around the world, including 443,000 Brazilians, were shared to receive content related to Trump”.
The Secretariat’s investigation concluded that same year that the illegal sharing of data occurred through the installation of ‘This Is Your Digital Life’, a personality testing app.
“For presenting failures to inform about the privacy settings, Senacon understood that Facebook committed abusive practice with users and, therefore, imposed a fine of R$ 6.6 million”.
In July of this year, Senacon itself overturned the conviction to ensure Facebook’s broad defense.
However, according to the Secretariat, the company continued to state that there were no indications that Brazilian data had been transferred to Cambridge Analytica and that, therefore, there was no need to talk about misuse or improper exposure of this information.
“The allegations were not accepted by Senacon, which again established the fine of R$ 6.6 million”, it says in a note.
The amount must be collected in favor of the Fund for the Defense of Diffuse Rights.
at the request of CNN Brazil, Facebook said it would not comment on the matter.
Source: CNN Brasil
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