[NEWS UPDATE] How to find out if Facebook shared your data with Cambridge Analytica

JARVIS

Facebook landed into trouble with the Cambridge Analytica data leak. All this started in 2014, when an academic of Russian origin at Cambridge University Aleksandr Kogan, created a Facebook app which paid the users to take up a psychological test. The users who took the test shared the data of their Facebook friends with the app and Kogan later sold it to Cambridge Analytica, a voter profiling company in the UK.



This whole data scandal landed Facebook in deep waters and the company is in the damage control mode past 21 days. Recently, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that data of about 87 million people was compromised in the data leak. The company will now be informing the users if their data was compromised in the leak or not.



The social networking giant will be sending a notification to your Facebook newsfeed starting today. In case you profile was obtained by Cambridge Analytica, the notification will tell you that how Facebook has banned a site called "This Is Your Digital Life", as it shared the user data without their consent with Cambridge Analytica




Facebook also announced that it has banned another data analytics firm called CubeYou for improper handling of user data they received from personality quizzes.











Recently, Mark Zuckerberg met US lawmakers to apologise for the social network's misuse of its members' data. "We didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake," he said in written remarks released by the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on Monday. "It was my mistake, and I'm sorry."

Antara

Let's see

JARVIS

Antara 10-4-2018 01:51 PM
Let's see

Ya bro

Lemuel Irabor

You should either #DeleteFacebook or at least, stop posting your personal details there. I favour the latter. My opinion though. ☺

JARVIS

Lemuel Irabor 10-4-2018 08:15 PM
You should either #DeleteFacebook or at least, stop posting your personal details there. I favour th ...

Ya bro PRIVACY and SECURITY it's IMPORTANT

Adam22

Good information. I need to check.

Machan simai

Adam22 10-4-2018 10:09 PM
Good information. I need to check.

Informative....

robert_mueller

As other FB members suggested I deactivated my FB account. I will try to live without FB for 2 months and then I will re-evaluate if I want to activate my account again. By the way my account data was not compromised.

shuben

It's a bit depressing at how Facebook and other websites collect your data to market you to advertisers (and political campaigns) even if you don't use Facebook yourself.   They do this by harvesting your name and contact information from people who do use Facebook.

There have been some interesting articles on what you can do to delete some of this information from their collection, but it appears that you can't delete everything--even if you delete the Facebook app.

JARVIS

shuben 15-4-2018 10:15 AM
It's a bit depressing at how Facebook and other websites collect your data to market you to advertis ...

Put 2 STEP VERFICATION FOR YOUR ACCOUNT ITS LIGHTLY SAFE for You