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Facebook has started notifying up to 87 million people that their information was improperly obtained by Cambridge Analytica, but not everyone has received the notification yet. If you haven’t seen the prompt in your News Feed, there’s a simple way to check your account. Facebook’s help center now has a section that tells you whether you or a friend were affected, available right here.
Affected users will be prompted to change app settings, but it’s worth checking over the list of Facebook apps you have to ensure you remove ones you no longer need. Facebook is not notifying individual users of the identify of the friend who used the “thisisyourdigitallife” app, though.
Facebook is now implementing platform changes to prevent other Facebook apps from improperly obtaining data again in the future. The company is looking for “suspicious activity” from developers to audit them, following similar app restriction changes made back in 2014. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will now testify before Congress this week to answer questions about his company’s use and protection of user data.
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What happened
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- Facebook suspended Donald Trump’s data operations team for misusing people’s personal information
- Academic who collected 50 million Facebook profiles: ‘We thought we were doing something normal’
- The shady data-gathering tactics used by Cambridge Analytica were an open secret to online marketers. I know, because I was one
- Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook data abuse shouldn’t get credit for Trump
- Cambridge Analytica reportedly still hasn’t deleted Facebook user data as promised
- Facebook says Cambridge Analytica data collection affected nearly twice as many users as previously thought
- Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Facebook profile was part of the Cambridge Analytica leak
- Shadow profiles are the biggest flaw in Facebook’s privacy defense
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Facebook reacts
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- Facebook says it’s hired a forensics team to investigate Cambridge Analytica
- Cambridge Analytica says it’s conducting a third-party audit over Facebook data
- Facebook will limit developers’ access to account data
- Cambridge Analytica suspends its CEO after comments about bribery and entrapment
- Facebook says it will not extend GDPR privacy protections beyond EU
- Facebook will no longer allow third-party data for targeting ads
- Facebook is reducing its Android call history and SMS data collection
- Facebook has suspended Canadian data firm AggregateIQ
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The world reacts
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- Facebook stock tanks after data breach report, shaving billions off company’s market value
- WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
- Sonos is pulling its ads off Facebook and Instagram, but only for a week
- Elon Musk has removed Tesla and SpaceX’s Facebook pages
- Playboy deletes its Facebook accounts
- In a leaked memo, Facebook executive describes the consequences of its growth-at-all-costs mentality
- Here are the internal Facebook posts of employees discussing today’s leaked memo
- Facebook is being investigated by New York and Massachusetts attorneys general over Cambridge Analytica scandal
- The FTC confirms it’s investigating Facebook over its privacy practices
- UK seeks warrant to examine Cambridge Analytica servers
- UK committee asks Zuckerberg to testify on ‘catastrophic’ Facebook privacy failure
- Facebook hit with four lawsuits in one week over Cambridge Analytica scandal
- Investor groups call for Mark Zuckerberg to resign
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The apology tour
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- Mark Zuckerberg apologizes for the Cambridge Analytica scandal
- Mark Zuckerberg apologizes for Facebook’s data privacy scandal in full-page newspaper ads
- Facebook wants a social media supreme court so it can avoid hard questions
- Facebook starts notifying millions of users that their data was ‘improperly obtained’
- Mark Zuckerberg will appear before Congress to address Cambridge Analytica scandal
- Mark Zuckerberg is heading to Congress, and the stakes couldn’t be higher
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Zuckerberg testifies
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- Here’s how much Facebook donated to every lawmaker questioning Mark Zuckerberg this week
- Watch Zuckerberg testify before Congress, day 1
- Mark Zuckerberg isn’t ruling out a paid version of Facebook
- Zuckerberg struggles to name a single Facebook competitor
- Zuckerberg shoots down conspiracy theory that Facebook taps your microphone
- After Facebook hearing, senators roll out new bill restraining online data use
- The 5 biggest takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance before the Senate
- Mark Zuckerberg’s Wednesday congressional hearing testimony is now online
- Watch Zuckerberg testify before Congress, day 2
- Zuckerberg says Facebook will extend European data protections worldwide — kind of
- Congressman presses Zuckerberg on Facebook’s poor diversity record
- Republican lawmakers keep grilling Mark Zuckerberg about ‘censoring’ two conservative vloggers
- 11 weird and awkward moments from two days of Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional hearing
- 7 takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance before the House
- What you can do 4
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