NEW YORK--Get ready to know if your Facebook data has been washed away in the Cambridge analytics scandal. From Monday onwards, the 87 million users who may have shared their data with Cambridge Analytics will receive a detailed message about their newsfeeds. Facebook says that most affected users-over 70 million-are in the United States, although there are over 1 million each in the Philippines, Indonesia and the UK
In addition, all users of Facebook 2.2 billion receive a message titled "Protecting their Information " with a link to see which applications they use and what information they have shared with those applications. If you want, you can disable applications individually or completely disable third-party access to your applications.
Staggering from his worst private life crisis in history – claims that these data mining companies associated with Trump may have used unlawfully made user data to try to influence the options – Facebook is in the way The full damage control. CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that he made a "big mistake " by not having a sufficiently broad view of what the responsibility of Facebook is in the world. He's ready to testify before the Congress this week.
And Facebook's director of operations, Sheryl Sandberg, echoed Zuckerberg's comments in a series of interviews last week.
"This was a great breach of trust," said Sandberg to CNBC. "People come to Facebook every day and they depend on us to protect our data, and I'm so sorry that we leave so many people down.
Cambridge Analytics The plaintiff Christopher Wylie previously estimated that more than 50 million people were compromised by a personality questionnaire that collected data from users and their friends. In an interview aired on NBC on Sunday, Wylie said that the actual number could be even greater than 87 million.
This Facebook application, called "It's your digital Life ", was a personality contest created in 2014 by a university researcher named Aleksander Kogan who paid nearly 270 000 people to take it. The application sought not only the data of the people who took it, but also-thanks to the lax restrictions of Facebook-the data of their friends also, including the details they do not intend to share publicly.
Facebook later restricts the data applications that you can access, but it was too late in this case.
Zuckerberg said that Facebook came up with figure 87 million calculating the maximum number of friends that users might have while the Kogan application was collecting data. The company has no documents that go so far back, he says, so he may not know exactly how many people may be affected.
Cambridge Analytics said in a Wednesday release that there was data for only 30 million Facebook users.
In addition, all users of Facebook 2.2 billion receive a message titled "Protecting their Information " with a link to see which applications they use and what information they have shared with those applications. If you want, you can disable applications individually or completely disable third-party access to your applications.
Staggering from his worst private life crisis in history – claims that these data mining companies associated with Trump may have used unlawfully made user data to try to influence the options – Facebook is in the way The full damage control. CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that he made a "big mistake " by not having a sufficiently broad view of what the responsibility of Facebook is in the world. He's ready to testify before the Congress this week.
And Facebook's director of operations, Sheryl Sandberg, echoed Zuckerberg's comments in a series of interviews last week.
"This was a great breach of trust," said Sandberg to CNBC. "People come to Facebook every day and they depend on us to protect our data, and I'm so sorry that we leave so many people down.
Cambridge Analytics The plaintiff Christopher Wylie previously estimated that more than 50 million people were compromised by a personality questionnaire that collected data from users and their friends. In an interview aired on NBC on Sunday, Wylie said that the actual number could be even greater than 87 million.
This Facebook application, called "It's your digital Life ", was a personality contest created in 2014 by a university researcher named Aleksander Kogan who paid nearly 270 000 people to take it. The application sought not only the data of the people who took it, but also-thanks to the lax restrictions of Facebook-the data of their friends also, including the details they do not intend to share publicly.
Facebook later restricts the data applications that you can access, but it was too late in this case.
Zuckerberg said that Facebook came up with figure 87 million calculating the maximum number of friends that users might have while the Kogan application was collecting data. The company has no documents that go so far back, he says, so he may not know exactly how many people may be affected.
Cambridge Analytics said in a Wednesday release that there was data for only 30 million Facebook users.
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