Ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, people have grown more aware of the sheer volume of private data that platforms from Google to Facebook share to their ad creators and sell to third parties. This, combined with measures passed in the US and abroad (such as the GDPR), have lead to major concerns on just […]
It’s been about two months since The New York Times and The Guardian published articles about a joint investigation on Cambridge Analytica, a thereto mostly unknown political data consultancy, and their collection and exploitation of Facebook user data to influence elections and other political activities. Since the data scandal leaked, Facebook’s drawn-out silence and lack […]