50 Million Facebook Profiles Harvested Without User Consent – Data Monster Chose NOT to Alert Victims & Is Trying to Threaten Reporters
News broke late last night revealing how a startup data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, harvested profiles of millions of Facebook users in what is being termed the company’s “biggest ever data breach.” The analytics firm used this data to build a powerful program to predict and influence voter choices.
By now, a lot has already been reported on how the biggest social networking platform was used by politicians and their wealthy backers in the last few years to sow civic disruption and potentially to influence election results. Whether they managed to influence voters is a debate that will possibly never end. However, the whistleblower’s story and Facebook’s press release confirm how the company tried to push this incident under the rug instead of informing users who were affected by this biggest data breach.
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