Anonymous ID: 7037a5 July 4, 2018, 1:11 a.m. No.2025453   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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The FBI and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are reportedly joining the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in investigating Facebook over its user management practices.

 

Authorities specifically want to know more about how the now-defunct data analytics firm known as Cambridge Analytica was able to acquire the personal data of 87 million users through Facebook, but without the subjectsโ€™ permission, according to The Wall Street Journal.

 

Cambridge Analytica worked with President Donald Trumpโ€™s campaign team for a period of time before the 2016 election. After Facebook disclosed that Cambridge Analytica violated its data usage agreement by collecting data on usersโ€™ friends through a program, and was suspending it for doing so, both the company and Facebook faced a flood of public backlash. The top people, including the former Cambridge Analytica CEO and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, also testified during hearings before the European Parliament, the British Parliament and U.S. Congress.