Facebook has come under intense scrutiny in recent weeks after news broke that Cambridge Analytica, a data firm with ties to President Donald Trump’s campaign, may have had information on millions of Facebook userswithout their knowledge.
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The social networking giant said on Wednesday the data of up to 87 million people worldwide – including more than 300,000 Australian users – were shared with Cambridge Analytica.
US-based social media giant Facebook today admitted that almost 5.62 lakh people in India were “potentially affected” by its global data breach involving Cambridge Analytica, and asserted that the UK-based firm’s use of such data did not have its consent.
“What we didn’t do is the next step of an audit and we’re trying to that now”, she said.
Sandberg further said Facebook does not give away its users’ information, evn though the company’s service depends on the users’ data.
“We’re going to have to slow down a little bit make sure we read those tiny little fine print items before we click agree”, he continued.
The aforementioned “unsend” feature has reportedly been in the works for a couple of months, with Facebook relaying the following to BGR. That is, unless you are Mark Zuckerberg.
Under-fire Facebook tried to get major hospitals and medical groups to share patient data, according to U.S. reports. “There are operational things that we need to change in this company and we are changing them”. That said, the affair does not seem to have made much of an impact on the company’s bottom line.
Cambridge Analytica has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg is expected to testify about the issue at United States congressional hearings next week.
The company is facing a global backlash over the improper data-sharing scandal.
Facebook will start telling people next week if their information was shared with Cambridge Analytica. “That raises the question of whether this was a breach of user trust”, the report added.
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Facebook on Friday found itself in the middle of controversy when a report by TechCrunch claimed Facebook messages sent by Mark Zuckerberg “simply vanished from their (user’s) Facebook inboxes while their own replies to him conspicuously remain”.
