This week I started my thesis to graduate in the career of Bachelor of Laws, by UNAM, in it I touch on issues of technological law, and one of my chapters has to do with the series of demands that Facebook, Meta, receives worldwide , faced by Mark Zuckerberg, and the large amounts of money spent defending his interests worldwide; and it is that for them it is worth paying fines to the authorities, since it is more productive to violate the laws, and then obtain multimillion-dollar profits by selling and using the personal data of users without their consent.
These days, despite the fact that the case was from 2018, it was announced that he faces a new lawsuit for the scandal of Cambridge Analytics and Facebook, now in the United States.
According to the Attorney General of the District of Columbia, Karl Racine, the businessman was “directly responsible” for creating lax rules that allowed Cambridge Analytica’s political consultancy to obtain user data without their consent during the elections. United States presidential in 2016.
According to the opinion, tens of millions of Americans were left exposed, vulnerable, when their personal data was collected, and it was Mr. Zuckerberg who authorized these flaws, security loopholes, through which the data could be obtained, this being illegal conduct. , by all accounts.
It is also sought to send the message that all CEOs, of this type of high-level technology companies, will be responsible for the acts they comment on. They cannot be said to be ignorant of what happens in their companies, regarding this type of situation that involves fundamental human rights, such as the protection of personal data of the users of their services.
In the United States, the Law that Zuckerberg violated is called “Law and Consumer Protection”, having obtained data from Internet users, with deception, so the Prosecutor determined that Zuckerberg personally supervised the data collection engineering, so The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered the social network to pay a fine of 5,000 million dollars for bad practices in handling data security.
But this is just the most recent, in France, it has opened the compliance process to make it easier for French users to reject the famous cookies, 60 million euros for its cookie policy was the fine imposed on Facebook, plus one hundred an additional thousand euros for each month of delay that they fail to comply with. The ruling says that although US tech companies offer French users a single button to accept cookies immediately, there was no equally simple way to reject them, because “it takes multiple clicks to reject all cookies.”
We all know that the true purpose of cookies is to monitor users online, their commercial, ideological, financial preferences, etc. In Europe they are more regulated than in the United States. They have Facebook and Google, who were also fined for the same crime, three months to comply or they will be sanctioned more severely.
Meanwhile, I will continue working on my thesis where Facebook, Google, above all, give me legal material to analyze all the violations they continue to commit, in terms of the protection of users’ personal data, and how governments are already reacting very slowly. , but reacting, before all the new regulations that they will have to create to order the cyber world.