Facebook faces threat of shutdown in Indonesia over privacy breach
( April 3, 2018, 02:15 GMT | Insight) -- Indonesia’s minister for communications and information technology has warned he could shut down Facebook if the social media giant failed to comply with a 2016 decree on the protection of personal information. In an interview with Bloomberg, Rudiantara said he wanted an undertaking from Facebook that there were no Indonesian users whose data was used by Cambridge Analytica.Indonesia’s minister for communications and information technology has warned he could shut down Facebook if the social media giant failed to comply with a 2016 decree on the protection of personal information. In an interview with Bloomberg, Rudiantara said he wanted an undertaking from Facebook that there were no Indonesian users whose data was used by Cambridge Analytica. Otherwise, he can impose sanctions ranging from just issuing a warning letter to shutting down access to the app in Indonesia, as he has done before with messaging app Telegram. Facebook employees can also face up to 12 years in jail and a fine of up to 12 billion rupiah ($873,000)....
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