Posted on 03/20/2018 11:47:03 AM PDT by C19fan
Hundreds of millions of Facebook users are likely to have had their private information harvested by companies that exploited the same terms as the firm that collected data and passed it on to Cambridge Analytica, according to a new whistleblower.
Sandy Parakilas, the platform operations manager at Facebook responsible for policing data breaches by third-party software developers between 2011 and 2012, told the Guardian he warned senior executives at the company that its lax approach to data protection risked a major breach.
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To tell you the truth, I think of some of the things I used to say on FB before it got too hostile and wonder if I’m not already in the Obama’s deplorables database.
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