15/07/2019 (Agence Europe) – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has recommended that Facebook be fined $5 billion (4.43 billion euros) for failing to protect its users' data, which led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. This decision, revealed on 12 July by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, has yet to be approved by the Justice Department, which generally follows the regulator's opinion. This sum is the result of an amicable agreement following an investigation opened in 2018 and which should "include clauses imposing restrictions on the world's leading social network on how it uses personal data". This decision should not come as a surprise to Facebook, which, at the end of April, announced that it had prepared for such a sanction by making financial provisions of $3 billion. (SPj)