In short, it collected all its data and friends list.
In total, 50 million people were affected.
It also swore that this information was already deleted, but actually, it was not.
This information was used to direct political messages to the people who would be most susceptible to them.
There is also a set of similar data for residents of the state of Oregon.
In a statement, Cambridge Analytica says: We never passed any GSR data to outside parties.
So who leaked these data?
It recalls that it has sued several former employees who had stolen data and intellectual property from the company.
These former employees signed an agreement promising that they had disposed of all this material.
Learn more: Facebook will no longer use data from companies like Experian to target ads.
Zuckerberg will have to explain to the US Congress.
Cambridge Analytica is also being investigated.
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