Wednesday, 4 April 2018

Facebook makes changes to protect members; 87 million profiles used by Cambridge Analytica

One week before its co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Facebook revealed some more damaging information. It actually turns out that 50 million members did not have their profiles used by Cambridge Analytica without permission. Nope. A blog post written by Facebook chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer, mentions near the end of the post that the actual number is 87 million.

The 87 million profiles were supposed to be used for research only by Russian-American researcher Aleksandr Kogan. The data ended up in the hands of political ...

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