Facebook: San asks 4 million euros for Marino of privacy – Chronicle
Republic of San Marino – David lashes out against Goliath only that he no longer uses the old sling, but a 4 million euro account . Davide is the small republic of San Marino and Goliath is Facebook: to infuriate the privacy authority of the small state is a massive hacking of personal data of users of the popular social network advent in 2019 and which is now back in close relevance, because that data is available again on the network. Thus the Republic of the Titan inflicted a fine of 4 million euros on Facebook.
Those unauthorized accesses and theft did not concern only the San Marino inhabitants, on the contrary: they are about half a billion personal data which are now at the mercy of everyone, even among themselves 36 million Italians and – and here it comes to the point – 12,700 citizens of the Republic of Titano. A drop in the ocean. But not for them, of course.
For this reason, the Guarantor Authority for the protection of personal data of San Marino – on the input of the vice president Umberto Rapetto, former general of the Guardia di Finanza and great expert in the online world, and of the other member, the lawyer Patrizia Gigante – has inflicted on Facebook a fine of 4 million euros for the dissemination deemed undue of personal data. In April, Italy also made itself heard, but limited itself to asking Mark Zuckerberg’s social network for verification.
The investigation opened by San Marino, on the other hand, ended with the unanimous vote of the College for the sanction. “We are the only authority in the world who punished them,” Rapetto explains to Ansa. With the investigative support of the Gendarmerie, evidence of the illicit spread of names, surnames, home addresses, telephone numbers, e-mails, information on the place and work activity and biographical information of users. Faceboo – affirms the San Marino Guarantor – “in response to a request for explanations”, “declared that what unfortunately happened is to be attributed to the use of the ‘data scraping’ technique”, a system that “allows the collection of data present on the Net improperly using some website features “.
However – in the opinion of the Guarantor – Facebook have failed to implement “adequate technical and organizational measures for ensure an adequate level of safetyFurthermore, “the fact that the social network did not transmit” weighed on the sanction “any measures to mitigate the damage suffered by interested parties who have learned from the newspapers that their personal data has been concluded “.
Facebook may oppose the provision with an appeal before the ordinary judicial authority.
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