How to find out if your Facebook profile was used by Cambridge Analytica.
It’s hard to believe how the world has changed in 21 days. few weeks ago, we passed along the news that millions of Facebook profiles had been obtained by a consulting firm named Cambridge Analytica without users’ permission.
Facebook might have violated a 2011 consent decree signed with the FTC that prevented the company from using personal data without getting permission from its owner.
As a result, Facebook has been under fire. Many have deleted the app, or have stopped using the social network. Co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify in front of both the Senate and the House starting today, and a 24 hour boycott of Facebook and its associated apps will start Wednesday morning.
Although 78 Facebook users in Nigeria installed the Cambridge Analytica (CA) app, the potential impact has affected about 271, 469 people in the country, according to the social media platform.
It was alleged that Cambridge Analytica sought to influence the Nigerian presidential election in 2015 by using graphically violent imagery to portray a candidate as a supporter of sharia law who would brutally suppress dissenters and negotiate with militant Islamists, a video passed to British MPs reveals.
Facebook admitted it may have “improperly shared” the personal data of up to 2.7 million people in the European Union (EU).
How to Know if Your Facebook Profiled Was Used by Cambridge Analytica
>>A notification will be seen at the top of your Facebook newsfeed starting today. If your profile was obtained by Cambridge Associates, the notification will relate how Facebook has banned a site called “This Is Your Digital Life” because it improperly shared your Facebook info with Cambridge Analytica.
You can tap on a link that will show you how you’re affected. Others will see a notification that discusses a new feature that allows Facebook members to control which apps have access to their personal data.
Source: Facebook
This is really crazy and moreso a breach of trust. I hope this silly mistake doesnt lead to losses for facebook
this is how Facebook will go extinct.
Impossible
I have deactivated my Facebook account sef
This looks like damage control by Facebook but then it is too late..
I wasn’t affected. But this is very sad and unprofessional.
This is bad and it’s shouldn’t mark that do such
This is bad market for Facebook
I am not affected too
don’t think i was affected. but either way, this is rally bad for Facebook and bad for their business. it isn’t enough for me to delete the app sha
What nonsense is this. Facebook should take their time oh.
Nothing last forever. 3 months ago I was arguing with a friend. I told him that Facebook wasn’t existing b4 so it might go down someday while another social media might come up . And he was arguing with me as if his father is Mark zuckerberg
Very soon we might get something that’s more powerful than Facebook…
Nope, mine was not used
Going to check mine right now.
I activated my Facebook back dis evening n I saw it dre
All these na story. More friend request still trooping in. No leave no transfer
This drama never end?