Italy's privacy regulator said
Tuesday that it has demanded further clarification from Facebook
"over the possible violation of personal data of tens of
thousands of already-identified Italian users and others who
have not yet been identified".
The authority released a statement after President Antonello
Soro met a delegation from the social-media platform headed by
its European privacy chief Yvonne Cunnane, in the wake of
alleged privacy breaches involving Cambridge Analytica.
The statement said the watchdog had demanded full cooperation
from Facebook, with details of which political marketing
agencies had had access to user data, what technologies were
used to get the information, and what efforts were being made to
ensure data-protection regulatons are respected.
"The big companies that operate on the Internet must show
that they work with respect for the law and deserve the trust of
their users, precisely because of the significant power they
exercise and enormous quantities of personal data they handle,"
Soro said.
He added that the authority would impose "heavy penalties" if
Facebook fails to fix the privacy issues.
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