The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has voted to approve a settlement with Facebook that will see the social media giant hit with a roughly $5 billion fine over the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, reports The Wall Street Journal.
The scandal revolved around data firm Cambridge Analytica, which improperly collected information on tens of millions of Facebook users without their consent to create targeted political advertisements during the 2016 campaign.
The data collection came through an app called “This Is Your Digital Life,” which requested that Facebook users complete a survey for academic use. In reality, the app’s permissions allowed it to collect personal information on not just the Facebook users who took the survey but also their friends.
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