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Facebook on Wednesday said that the data of up to 87 million users may have been improperly shared with a political consulting firm connected to President Trump during the 2016 election — a figure far higher than the estimate of 50 million that had been widely cited since the leak was reported last month.
Facebook had not previously disclosed how many accounts had been harvested by Cambridge Analytica, the firm connected to the Trump campaign. It has also been reluctant to disclose how it was used by Russian-backed actors to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Among Facebook’s acknowledgments on Wednesday was the disclosure of a vulnerability in its search and account recovery functions that it said could have exposed “most” of its 2 billion users to having their public profile information harvested.
So to be clear this 87 million number STILL may not prove accurate, as essentially every Facebook user's information could have been "harvested," which sounds like a fancy word for "stolen."
So now Zuckerberg is claiming that Facebook will now provide the tools for users to better control who accesses their information, but keep in mind that they have known about this for years and only started to give a shit when journalists reported on the multiple breaches.
At least least Tom Anderson of MySpace pretended to be our friend.
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