A new report issued by British lawmakers argues Facebook “intentionally and knowingly” violated the United Kingdom’s data privacy and competition laws. The report called on U.K. lawmakers to create regulations to hold tech giants like Facebook accountable for the malicious spread of online information. Facebook has previously stated that it never sold users’ data and that those companies were business partners. Karim Palant, the platform’s public policy manager in the U.K., told CNN that Facebook had not broken any laws. U.K. lawmakers said the tech giant broke the law last year after meddling with Cambridge Analytica, a political consultant that wrongly accessed the data of 87 million Facebook users.

Source: Huffington Post February 18, 2019 03:52 UTC