US, UK investigating Facebook’s role in Cambridge Analytica data breach

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has opened an inquiry into whether Facebook improperly allowed Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that backed President Trump’s 2016 election campaign, to obtain personal data from 50 million users. This weekend, a whistleblower informed the Guardian that, in 2014, Cambridge Analytica obtained personal information on millions of US …

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