Millions of Facebook users to find out Monday if Cambridge Analytica shared their data

[UpInArms]

Source: Marketwatch

An estimated 87 million Facebook Inc. users will discover Monday whether their data was misused by Cambridge Analytica.

The social-media group FB, +0.36% which has been under fire since it was revealed that the political firm hired by President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign improperly accessed user data, said those affected will be notified as of Monday.

What’s more, all 2.2 billion users will get a detailed message entitled “Protecting Your Information,” that will reveal what apps each person is using and what information might have been shared with those apps.

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And Facebook’s 87-million-user-estimate could go higher, said former Cambridge Analytica research director, Christopher Wylie, who blew the whistle on the data breach. Wylie made the comments to NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, saying that it was tough to really “verify” that total of users.

Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/millions-of-facebook-users-to-find-out-monday-if-cambridge-analytica-shared-their-data-2018-04-09

[getagrip_already]

1. You would think fb would have a way...

to prevent that stolen info from being used.

[Skittles]

5. they are in the business of data mining

they did not care

[onecent]

2. When are they going to let facebook people have one OR the other. Nothing in my facebook???

[shanti]

3. What about the former FB users

who left after this shitstorm? They are also victims. Will they be informed too??

[FakeNoose]

4. I quit facebook over 15 years ago and I still get their spam

They never lose track of anybody.