INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Image copyrightGetty ImagesAustralia's privacy regulator is taking Facebook to court over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.The Office of
the Australian Information Commissioner said Facebook had seriously infringed the privacy of more than 300,000 Australians.The social media
giant left personal data "exposed to be sold and used for political profiling".The scandal involved harvested Facebook data of 87 million
people being used for advertising during elections
"Facebook failed to take reasonable steps to protect those individuals' personal information from unauthorised disclosure," the Australian
commissioner's office said
A Facebook spokesperson said the company had "actively engaged" with the commissioner since it opened the investigation in 2018
They said Facebook had "made major changes to help people protect and manage their data"."We're unable to comment further as this is now
before the Federal Court," the spokesperson said.Researcher Dr Aleksandr Kogan and his company GSR used a personality quiz called "This Is
Your Digital Life" to harvest the personal information of people who used it.But because of the way Facebook's rules worked at the time,
it could also access the information of a user's friends, even if those people had never authorised the app.Some of that information was
Office (ICO) in October 2018 for what it called a "serious breach" of the law
It was the maximum fine available under the law before a new privacy law (GDPR) took effect.In the United States, regulators levied a record
