Most industry watchers who publicly commented on the ordeal are in agreement that Facebook is becoming an increasingly likely target for privacy regulators in the West due to the Cambridge
Analytica incident.
Affected users, including those whose data were allegedly misused in the Cambridge
Analytica incident, will be notified by Facebook, Zuckerberg said.
In an interview with Recode, Zuckerberg said he was open to testifying in front of Congress about the Cambridge
Analytica incident, although he added a caveat saying he would be «open to doing it» if he was the «right [person]» to do so.
Apple's CEO Tim Cook had openly criticised Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg for the data breach that occurred due to the Cambridge
Analytica incident.
Facebook might insist there is not data breach as such, meaning no one hacked into its networks to steal data, but the implications of the Cambridge
Analytica incident will serve as a warning for all democracies.
One of Facebook's responses to the Cambridge
Analytica incident was to allow users to download their data archive on the social network in order for users to fully understand what information Facebook stores.
(The personality quiz app that gathered the data used in the Cambridge
Analytica incident was developed in 2013.)
One unnamed developer told TechCrunch that the Cambridge
Analytica incident «really hurt consumer trust for all apps... even the good guys,» leading them to change their app's terms and conditions.
The organization has made their frustration with Facebook known in the past, opting to pull their ads from the platform shortly after the Cambridge
Analytica incident gained significant media attention.
A Facebook critic said the company was fortunate that the Cambridge
Analytica incident did not occur after the GDPR went into effect, implying the company would have suffered harsh fines.
The FTC is investigating the Cambridge
Analytica incident, and Mr. Zuckerberg is set to testify at two congressional hearings next week.
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«I think fundamentally what the Cambridge
Analytica incident revealed was that there was a lot of data being collected, [and] consumers largely are not always aware of what was collected on them or how it was being used.»
Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, says the Cambridge
Analytica incident is a textbook violation of the settlement Facebook reached with the FTC in 2011 which required that Facebook users give permission before their data was shared beyond the privacy limits they set on Facebook.
Because Facebook claimed that the Cambridge
Analytica incident was not a «data breach» in the legal sense, it has not provided notice to users whose data was accessed; the company has promised to change that and notify all affected users.
Facebook, to take an example ripped from the headlines, has suffered a loss of public trust recently due to ongoing media coverage of the Cambridge
Analytica incident involving the misuse of private data of up to 87 million Facebook users.
Rep. Anna Eshoo (D — Calif.) asked Zuckerberg in a back and forth of quick questions whether the Facebook CEO's own data was among those whose data was sold to «malicious third parties» in the Cambridge
Analytica incident.
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The Facebook - Cambridge
Analytica scandal is the latest of many
incidents in recent years that have left consumers jittery about the security of their online personal information.
Over the weekend, after news broke that Cambridge
Analytica had harvested data on as many as 50 million Facebook users, Facebook's communications team encouraged Mr. Stamos to tweet in defense of the company, but only after it asked to approve Mr. Stamos's tweets, according to two people briefed on the
incident.
This
incident involving Cambride
Analytica clearly puts this to question,» the commissioner writes.
The Facebook - Cambridge
Analytica story may have been the first high profile -
incident to survive numerous news cycles, but many more are sure to come.
«I think it's safe to say very simply that Facebook is losing the trust of an awful lot of Americans as a result of this
incident,» said Peters, tying his constituents» questions about mobile data mining to their outrage over the Cambridge
Analytica scandal.
The Cambridge
Analytica scandal was a doozy for the tech industry, with Facebook getting the brunt of the criticisms of the
incident.
Already, a torrent of Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill have demanded that the company's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, testify about the company's privacy practices as well as the
incident involving Cambridge
Analytica.
He named Cambridge
Analytica and researcher Aleksandr Kogan by name and repeatedly, clearly aiming to cast this
incident as an anomaly.
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This
incident involving Cambride
Analytica clearly puts this to question,» the commissioner writes.
This is somewhat of a shift in tone from his Facebook posts or CNN and Wired interviews, where Zuckerberg said that the company wasn't sure whether there could be other Cambridge
Analytica - style situations out there, and suggests that the company has already stumbled across evidence indicating other
incidents are probable.
Facebook's CEO has finally responded to the Cambridge
Analytica scandal and laid out a three - step plan to remedy the
incident.
But in the wake of
incidents like the data leak to Cambridge
Analytica, some are questioning the costs of such loose policies on an influential platform with 2.2 billion registered users.
The bombshell footage, broadcast Monday as part of an investigation by Channel 4 News, comes days after Facebook suspended Cambridge
Analytica over an
incident involving its harvesting of data from 50 million profiles.
The magnitude of the public outcry and the amount of media attention given to the ordeal has been significant even in the context of the scope of the
incident which is said to have seen Cambridge
Analytica harvest data of some 50 million Facebook users while informing less than one - percent of them of that activity several years back, then leveraging that information to fight an information war during the 2016 presidential election in the United States, an accusation made by a whistleblower that the firm repeatedly denied.
Some of the company's comments on the matter suggest it was aware of the data harvesting conducted by Mr. Kogan's app and Cambridge
Analytica's involvement in the
incident even if it may not have had knowledge of how the data ended up being used.
It wasn't until Facebook learned that the New York Times and the Observer were planning to report on the
incident that it took action by suspending Cambridge
Analytica from Facebook.
Healey says residents in her state «deserve answers immediately» from Facebook and Cambridge
Analytica about what data was shared and how the
incident allowed to happen.
The fallout from the Facebook - Cambridge
Analytica revelations continues as the user data of 2.7 million Europeans was affected by the
incident.
Despite Facebook's claims to the contrary, everyone involved in the Cambridge
Analytica data - siphoning
incident did not give his or her «consent» — at least not in any meaningful sense of the word.
In a letter today from Democratic senator Ron Wyden, of Oregon, the social network has been challenged to explain how it handles disclosures to users, numerate how many such
incidents have happened in the past decade, and explain why it took until now for Facebook to bar Cambridge
Analytica altogether from its service.
Ron Wyden, an Oregon senator, has asked Mark Zuckerberg to explain not only the specific
incident involving Cambridge
Analytica, but Facebook's measures around third - party collection and user of user data as a whole.
Earlier, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said that his company must take steps to prevent developers from misusing personal data through passing it on to third parties after the recent
incident with Cambridge
Analytica.