Facebook broke U.K. privacy and competition law and should urgently be subject to statutory regulation, according to a parliamentary report labeling the company and its executives “digital gangsters”.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/18/facebook-fake-news-investigation-report-regulation-privacy-law-dcms

This following article from the BBC has even more details of how Facebook misused access to this collected data:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47281906

Both the UK and Germany are now calling for new legal regulations on “Social Media” companies such as Facebook and Twitter.