Facebook is in hot water after acknowledging that a consulting group – that has worked on several high profile political campaigns, including that of President Donald Trump’s – used the social media company’s platform to harvest the data of 50 million users.
The company last week said that in 2015, an app developer violated the company’s platform policies by collecting data via an app under the pretense of using it for psychological research – and instead passing users’ personal information to Cambridge Analytica and its parent company SCL.
Facebook maintains that the incident wasn’t a data breach – but since then, critics have come forward questioning how Facebook enforces privacy policies to protect user data, particularly with third-party app developers.
