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In the wake of the Facebook scandal, Facebook reported that over one million Facebook users in Indonesia might have had their data harvested by the British political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica. Following this report, the Indonesia government has given Facebook Inc. a week to provide answers about the data misuse. About 115 million Indonesians use the social network, and during the revelations, Mark Zuckerberg has revealed that 1, 096, 666 users" data may have been shared without authorisation. Although a Facebook official apologised to the members of parliament in Indonesia, the country"s communication ministry has requested for documents on any misuse of data. The Communication ministry released a statement that it sent a letter to Facebook Inc. headquarters in Ireland asking for details on the data sharing. It wants to know if Facebook had shared users" information with third-party companies such as Aggregate IQ and CubeYou, both of which were linked to the ...

Mark Zuckerberg has advertised on full-page US and UK newspapers to apologise for the recent data scandal his platform has caused. He admitted doing wrongly, at least. He said that Facebook could have prevented their data from being exploited by the British political consulting firm in 2014. " This was a breach of trust, and I am sorry ," he said in the ads. This means more than one thing. First, it proves Dave Lee wrong. He had earlier argued that " contrition has never been Mr. Zuckerberg"s strong point " because he did not officially apologise to the staff members who had been entangled in the scandal and to the affected users whose data were exploited. Secondly, he could be keeping to the end of his bargain because the social media firm is currently running at a loss. Last week, the firm lost about five million dollars. Elon Musk deleted all his firm"s pages on Facebook, sparing only two- the Boring company and the AI firm which he co-owns. The BBC rep...

In the wake of the scandal involving the most extensive social network and the political consulting firm, it is likely that other software developers and internet companies will be investigated over how they share users" data. The latest decision to probe other tech giants will likely affect Alphabet Inc."s Google, Twitter, Uber Technologies, Snapchat, LinkedIn, and a host of many others that make users" data available to third-party developers, a similar case to what drove Facebook into the mess. Facebook allows numerous software developers to operate on its network, thereby granting them the access to harvest users" data. The main issue is how the collated data got into the hands of Cambridge Analytica. Given this, lawmakers in the US and the European Union have requested for an investigation into how the British firm was given the access to the data of 50 million users.  Notably, other internet companies are guilty of a similar offence because as long as user...

The week has been an intense one for Facebook over data misuse. There have been two other players in the scene-Dr. Aleksandra Kogan, the psychology academic who created the app and Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting company who ran the 2016 elections for Donald Trump. Regardless of each party sharing in the responsibility of users" data, the brouhaha comes down to Facebook whose founder, Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that his social media platform erred and that mistake led to exploitation of data owned by 50 million users by the political consulting firm. The London-based political consulting firm is grossly accused of exploiting users" data in favour of a candidate in the 2016 US election. However, since the data was harvested from Facebook via an app, Mr. Zuckerberg in an interview with CNN apologised for the "breach of trust." In his Facebook post, he promised to correct the mistake by creating more stringent rules to make it difficult for apps to obta...

Dr. Aleksandr Kogan, the psychology academic who created the app which was used to amass the data of 50 million users, says Facebook and Cambridge Analytica is merely using him as a "scapegoat".  Dr. Kogan allegedly worked for the British firm in 2014 but had denied having an idea that Cambridge Analytica had an ulterior motive behind the gathered data.  His aim of creating the app was to model human behaviour via social media, and he was assured by the London-based firm that every process was legal. He said: "The events of the past week have been a total shell shock, and my view is that I"m basically used as a scapegoat by both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica when … we thought we were doing something really normal. We were assured by Cambridge Analytica that everything was perfectly legal and within the terms of service." Facebook has come out to say that the psychologic academic breached the site"s regulations. Christopher Wylie, Cambridge Analytica whi...

Recently, Facebook has been in the news for exploiting users" data without permission. A few days ago some privacy campaigners accused the social media of breaching data protection law. While the new rule by the legislation is yet to come into force, Facebook is under fire for aiding Donald Trump"s 2016 election campaign. The London-based firm, Cambridge Analytica is accused of breaching data rights by inappropriately collecting personal data of about 50million users on Facebook to influence the US election in 2016.  Political figures in the UK, Europe, and the US have requested that Facebook gives a vivid explanation on how the data on numerous users was produced. Both firms have denied any wrong-doing. Facebook says it will investigate Cambridge Analytica"s pages on its platform to determine how the data of millions of millions of users was harvested if they had been gathered unjustly and were still handy. Given this, the social media firm says it has hired a digital f...