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Facebook privacy: background

Cambridge Analytica scandal is not a 'breach'. It is Facebook's business model in action
The magnitude of Facebook's surveillance scheme revealed by the Cambridge Analytica story has led to public outcry and sent shockwaves through the political systems in the US and UK.
Facebook-Cambridge Analytica: A timeline of the data hijacking scandal
This is a succinct summary of how the scandal unfolded.
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Alongside London-based elections consultancy Cambridge Analytica, the social media giant is at the center of an ongoing dispute over the alleged harvesting and use of personal data. The allegations have heightened concerns over whether such data was then used to try and influence the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the Brexit vote.

What is Graph Search?
Graph search explained and why it should matter to you. This is at the heart of the Facebook data breach.

Cambridge Analytica is more than a data breach – it’s a human rights problem
Data breaches are fairly common events, so companies can downplay their seriousness. Consumers, for their part, may have started to see such breaches as normal too. The harm is not immediately tangible and therefore can feel less real.
Cambridge Analytica’s closure is a pyrrhic victory for data privacy
Legitimate means of data collection hinge upon the idea that users are seen to have explicitly allowed it by accepting the terms and conditions of service. But how many users understand what they sign up for when they tick the terms and conditions box?
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These agreements are characterised by their extreme complexity and vast length (it takes about nine hours to read the 73,198 words of Amazon Kindle’s).
If it’s free online, you are the product
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s recent testimony to congress highlights one of the key issues of our time – data acquisition by digital corporations and its lack of regulation.