50 million Facebook accounts are stolen, this is the biggest leak of information in social network history

On March 17, two famous newspapers in the UK and the United States, the New York Times and Guardian, simultaneously reported the evidence that Facebook had allowed a research company to take away information from 50 million. account to serve the US presidential election in 2016.

According to new information revealed by a UK-based data research company, Cambridge Analytica - a data analytics company with offices in the UK and the US - was hired by the campaign of Mr. Trump in the month. 6/2016 with a price of 6.2 million USD, spent about 1 million USD to collect data on millions of Facebook accounts. Later, the company used that information to build the psychological profile of its users and friends and then use that data to influence the results of the referendum in the UK and the election. in the US in 2016.

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Cambridge Analytica contributed significantly to the presidential campaign of Donald Trump in 2016. (Source: Wnolondon).

Currently, the judicial authorities of Massachusetts (USA) have conducted an investigation as soon as information is available.

Is your information really safe on Facebook?

According to CNN, your personal information is the product of Facebook, it is traded every day and advertisers are customers. When advertisers want to target a specific group of customers, such as gender, age, address or certain interests, Facebook will provide them.

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Not only Facebook, but also tech giants like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, Amazon, Twitter and Yelp have also sold some of your information to third parties.

Your personal information is the price to pay for free use of Facebook. Most people are posting, searching and sharing through free services. Companies will collect such data for legitimate purposes and to the extent that companies like Facebook allow it.

These agreements have helped Facebook and Google to hold ¾ of the $ 83 billion digital advertising market in the US, becoming the world's leading online advertisers.

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