Facebook admitted yesterday that their consulting group, Cambridge Analytica, improperly gained access to the personal information of up to 87 million Facebook users. Initially, international users were content that the majority of accounts being hacked were on the U.S side, but now it appears that about 20% of the users Cambridge Analytica obtained data on live outside the U.S. On Wednesday Facebook was forced to acknowledge that some sort of "malicious actors" were able to access personal data on the majority of their 2 billion users worldwide. Misusing the personal information of foreign Facebook users could cause a major legal issue for the company considering other countries take privacy issues much more seriously than the U.S government. Several countries including Australia, India, and Germany have spoken out against Facebook's privacy concerns and even launched their own investigations. The good news coming out of this is that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans on implementing a new law known as the General Data Protection Regulation worldwide. The law forces companies in Europe to tell online users what data they have stored on them and allow them to delete personal information if they want. Europe's tough privacy laws against U.S social media leaders could end up benefitting users all around the world.
-Michael Dieckman
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/04/05/as-facebook-confronts-tough-questions-on-data-misuse-europe-might-force-real-change/?utm_term=.fce4a1da03ad
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