The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is mulling slapping Facebook with the agency’s biggest privacy fine to date, which would exceed the $22.5 million fine it hit Google with back in 2012.
The FTC launched an investigation into Facebook’s practices last year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal came to light. Now defunct, Cambridge Analytica was a political consulting agency that managed to acquire personal data of around 87 million Facebook users without their knowledge. This resulted in large part because of inadequate app policies on Facebook’s part.
Now nearly a year later, several people who are supposedly familiar with matter told The Washington Post that US regulators have met to discuss fining Facebook for allegedly breaking an agreement with the FTC.
