Latin American Unicorns and Solving Datacenter Infrastructure Woes

Facebook announced on Wednesday that is was filing an appeal against the ICO, claiming that the fine “challenges some of the basic principles of how people should be allowed to share information online”. Facebook also said that by challenging the fine it wasn’t disputing its actions were wrong, however they claim that no evidence has been provided to suggest information of Facebook users in the UK was caught up in the scandal.The company also admitted it did ask Definers Public Affairs to undermine its critics by publishing their association with the philanthropist George Soros, despite what they claimed last week. Responsibility for this oversight was placed with outgoing head of communications and policy, Elliot Schrage.

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