Facebook has begun to notify users if they’re among the 87 million people whose information might have been compromised for use by the political research firm Cambridge Analytica.
Notifications will begin appearing this week on the top of users’ news feed, alerting them if they or a friend had ever logged in to the “This Is Your Digital Life” app, the personality quiz at the center of the data scandal.
Facebook since has banned the app, which sold information harvested from millions of users’ profile pages — details such as birthdate, current address and page likes — to Cambridge Analytica, a data-mining firm that worked on behalf of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign that used the information to try and influence voters. It was founded by then-future-now-former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon and billionaire Gop mega-donor Robert Mercer.
Users can consult a help page on Facebook to learn if their information was shared.
Notifications will begin appearing this week on the top of users’ news feed, alerting them if they or a friend had ever logged in to the “This Is Your Digital Life” app, the personality quiz at the center of the data scandal.
Facebook since has banned the app, which sold information harvested from millions of users’ profile pages — details such as birthdate, current address and page likes — to Cambridge Analytica, a data-mining firm that worked on behalf of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign that used the information to try and influence voters. It was founded by then-future-now-former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon and billionaire Gop mega-donor Robert Mercer.
Users can consult a help page on Facebook to learn if their information was shared.
- 4/13/2018
- by Dawn C. Chmielewski
- Deadline Film + TV
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