Data Leak

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service

company based in Menlo Park, California. It was launched on febraury 4, 2004, by Mark

Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo

Saverin, Andrew MnCollum, Dustin Moscovitz and Chris Hughes. According to research

as of the fourth quarter of 2017, Facebook had 2.2 billion monthly active users. In the

third quarter of 2012 the number of active Facebook users had surpasses 1 billion

making it the first social network ever to do so. This is a great social networking site until

the Facebook is caught up in a data breach controversy that saw the privacy of over

80 million users.

Cambridge Analytica collects and connects data to strategically consult-

-and communicate--for and with political candidates. As we've seen in the news the

past weeks, they do this by gathering information through data mining, data

brokerage, and data analysis.

The Cambridge Analytica are being accused of manipulating information to

sway elections around the world, they gathered the information of over 80 million

Facebook users, Furthermore, Cambridge Analytica didn't have authorizations to get

this data from these profiles.

Now how did this two are connected, In 2014, Facebook launched a quiz app

that asked Facebook users questions. According to Forbes, once Facebook users used

this app and filled out the questionnaire, the app would collect their private personal

Facebook information, as well as the information of all their Facebook friends.

Facebook allowed this app--and apps like it--to mine millions and millions of their users

personal data for years.

Due to this incident the Facebook CEO announced that the Facebook will

change on how it shares the data with third party apps. He noted that they already

changed some of the rules that enabled the breach. Zuckerberg also spoke to a

handful of media outlets, including a televised interview with CNN in which he

apologized for the “breach of trust”, saying: “I’m really sorry that this happened.”

For us students and if Facebook will be erased

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