Facebook says NO European users’ information may have been shared with the UK firm at the centre of the privacy scandal after all.
But at an EU hearing the social media network’s executives said they still had to conduct an internal audit to confirm that.
Facebook had previously said data from up to 2.7 million EU users had been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, the firm reportedly hired to influence Britain’s Brexit referendum and the U.S. election campaign that saw Donald Trump become president.
Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has apologised and pledged to apply new European data protection rules globally.
But has that happened yet?

Presenter: Peter Dobbie

Guests
Larry Magid, CEO Of ConnectSafely.org
Nishanth Sastry, senior Lecturer at the Department of Informatics at King’s College London
Eva Kaili, member of the European Parliament

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10 COMMENTS

  1. Mark Zuckerberg has been reading other people’s emails & selling their information since Harvard. There is NO reason to believe he’ll ever stop.

  2. Our data is gold to be mined. Humankind as a whole is too greedy and void of integrity to ever respect that. A psychopathic system will only ever deliver exploitation.

  3. See Article 6 of the GDPR which states "the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes; " Now enough evidence is available to show how and why Facebook, Google and Twitter violate that very dictate on a daily basis, making millions of dollars every month by selling user-information to thousands of third party developers and retailers : GDPR might just curtail the bombardment of adverts and propaganda. The profits and vicious trade will continue as is…

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