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Facebook Admits Cambridge Analytica Scandal Cost Up To $5Bln In US Penalties - Statement
Daniyal Sohail Published April 25, 2019 | 03:05 AM
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 25th April, 2019) Facebook said in a quarterly statement that it has accrued a cost of $5 billion as a result of the US Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) investigation into the company's failure to protect the data of tens of millions of users from being accessed by Cambridge Analytica.
"In the first quarter of 2019, we... recorded an accrual of $3.0 billion in connection with the inquiry of the FTC into our platform and user data practices," the quarterly report said on Wednesday. "We estimate that the range of loss in this matter is $3.0 billion to $5.0 billion."
The matter remained unresolved and Facebook could provide no assurance about the terms of the final settlement it would have to pay, the report said.
"As this expense is not expected to be tax-deductible, it had no effect on our provision for income taxes. Excluding this expense, our operating margin would have been 20 percentage points higher, our effective tax rate would have been 14 percentage points lower," the report said.
US federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into Facebook's policy of granting access to users' personal data for a number of big IT companies, according to media reports.
A grand jury in New York requested records from at least two manufacturers of smart phones and other devices that are said to have reached partnership agreements with Facebook to access users' personal data.
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