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Facebook–Cambridge
Analytica data scandal
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USER GROWTH
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WHO OWNS
FACEBOOK
WHAT IS
FACEBO
OK?
American company Opened to anyone 13 years or older
offering online social
networking services
Was founded in 2004 by Mark
Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, More than 2.3 billion monthly
Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris active users as of December
Hughes, all of whom were 2018
students at Harvard University
MISSION N' VISION
MISSIO VISIO
N N
“to give people the power to “People use Facebook to stay
share and make the world more connected with friends and
open and connected.” family, to discover what’s going
on in the world, and to share and
express what matters to them.”
THE USER
REVEN
UE
Facebook ranked No. 76 in the
2018 Fortune 500 list of the
largest United States
corporations by revenue.
WHO OWNS
FACEBOOK?
WHO? HOW?
Cambridge Cambridge
Analytica, the Analytica can map
political data firm in detail the
hired during the personal
2016 Trump
WHAT DATA? characteristics of
presidential users based on what
campaign that This data they "like" on
collected the includes Facebook, and then
personal data of Facebook use this information
more than 87 user identity, to display ads to the
million Facebook friends list right audience.
users. and likes.
ACCESSING
DATA
USA: 70.6
PHILLIPPINES: 11.7
INDONESIA:10.9
UK: 10.7
MEXICO: 7.8
CANADA: 6.2
INDIA:5.6
BRAZIL: 4.4
VIETNAM: 4.2
AUSTRALIA: 3.1
WHAT DID
FACEBOOK
SAY?
“A few days ago, we received a report saying that
contrary to the original confirmation, the data was
not completely destroyed. We are trying to verify
which report. If true, this would be an unacceptable
violation, contrary to their commitment (Cambridge
Analytica). We have discontinued the entire
Cambridge Analytica and Kogan applications on
Facebook for further investigation, ”
GOVERNMENT'S
REACTION
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
said on March 20 that they was
opening an investigation into the
possibility of Facebook's breach of the
data security agreement of the users
signed in 2011. The British
Parliamentary
Meanwhile in the Congress, Committee also sent a
Amy Klobuchar of the letter to Zuckerberg
Democratic Party and John asking the CEO to
Kennedy of the Republican testify before
Party requested a hearing parliament to answer
on the links between questions about the
Facebook and Cambridge relationship between
Analytica. Facebook
Facebook's refusal to publish data Republican leaders of theand
Senate
Cambridge Analytica.
Chamber of Commerce led by Senator
collection methods would violate
the laws of some states in the US John Thune sent a letter to Mark
Zuckerberg on March 19 asking to
THE USER'S REACTION
Mark Zuckerberg
apologises for Facebook’s
‘mistakes’ over
Cambridge Analytica
Facebook removed
advertising tools that
pull data from third
parties Facebook updated it’s
privacy settings
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