The hashtag #DeleteFacebook is trending on Monday after the New York Times reported this weekend that the data of 50 million users had been unknowingly leaked and purchased to aid President Trump’s successful 2016 bid for the presidency.
I did it 3 years ago and am surprisingly still alive and God forbid, happy!
Facebook is under fire after data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica received $15 million from Republican donor Robert Mercer ahead of the 2014 midterm elections to pay Cambridge Professor Aleksandr Kogan for data on millions of users.
Facebook said on Saturday that “Kogan lied to us” by passing data collected from his app to Cambridge Analytica.
But for many users, the news highlighted the danger of Facebook housing the personal information of billions of users.
Several app developers told TheWrap there is still little stopping them from violating Facebook’s terms of service and selling its data.
The company lost 1 million domestic users last quarter — its first quarterly drop in daily users. »