The UK's privacy watchdog has fined Facebook £500,000 — over Cambridge Analytica

Elizabeth Dunham, the information regulator in Britain, said on Wednesday she planned to impose a fine on Facebook because of violations of the data protection law, while her office is investigating how the Cambridge-Analyst consulting company gets millions of users' data improperly.

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg was questioned by legislators and legislators about how Cambridge Anti-Tika obtained data from 87 million Facebook users improperly through a researcher.

In an update on its use to analyze data through political campaigns, Dunham said she planned to impose a £ 500,000 fine on Facebook ($ 66,350,000), a small figure for a company with a market value of $ 590 billion, but the maximum amount could be Imposed.

Dunham said Facebook violated the law because it did not protect user data and it was unclear how others could benefit from the data on its platform.

"New technologies that use data analytics to target individuals give campaign groups the ability to communicate with individual voters, but that should not be at the expense of transparency, fairness and commitment," she said in Abyan.

Facebook can respond to the Commissioner before making the final decision and will review the report and respond shortly.

As we mentioned previously, we had to investigate Cambridge's claims and take action in 2015, "said Irene Egan, chief privacy officer at Facebook in a statement.