Turkey beats users' photo privacy leaks for more than $270,000

ANKARA (Urdu Point News / Sputnik - May 10, 2019) The Turkish Personal Data Protection Agency (KVKK) said on Friday that it had made 1.65 million lira to Facebook in April due to a data breach reported by the social media giant. A fine of about $270,000. last year.
According to KVKK, as many as 300,000 Facebook users in Turkey may have revealed their privacy because of a loophole. Facebook said in December that they have allowed third-party applications to be accessed from September 13 to 25, 2018. Photos of all users of the company.

The agency also said it had contacted Facebook but did not receive a response. On April 11, it decided to find the media giant 1 million lira did not respond in time to solve this problem, and another 550,000 lira failed to respond to Turkish institutions.

Facebook has become the focus of attention in some privacy scandals. In March 2018, it was revealed that the British Cambridge Analytical Political Consultancy Company used Facebook data to influence the US presidential election in 2016. Then, in September of that year, Facebook security issues allowed hackers to access about 50 million accounts of the company's users, and then social media giants' stocks plummeted by about 2.5%.