“In total, we believe the Facebook information of up to 87 million people — mostly in the US — may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica,” said Facebook in a blog post. But that’s only counting what they now think Cambridge Analytica got ahold of and used for political purposes. That’s not counting the data the Obama campaign had used from Facebook or what many others likely Web scraped and used and might still be using. Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, lists many ways Facebook is now tightening up access to data members provide. This will surely give Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg some good talking points when he appears before a congressional committee this week.

Source: Forbes April 09, 2018 13:41 UTC