Facebook has been fined £500,000, the maximum amount allowed, by the UK's data watchdog for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal in which the data of 87m users was acquired for political purposes. The Information Commissioner's Office determined that Facebook breached the 1998 Data Protection Act by allowing a personality app to access users' personal data from November 2013 and “failed to sufficiently protect the privacy of its users before, during and after the unlawful processing of this data." Also saying that "a company of its size and expertise should have known better and it…