- Facebook executives waded into a firestorm of criticism on Saturday, after news reports revealed that a data firm with ties to the Trump campaign harvested private information from millions of Facebook users.
- Several executives took to Twitter to insist that the data leak was not technically a “breach.”
- But critics were outraged by the response and accused the company of playing semantics and missing the point.
Facebook and its executives faced a torrent of backlash on Saturday following news reports that the data firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked on the Trump campaign in 2016, improperly harvested private information from 50 million Facebook users.
The company quickly faced calls for increased regulation and oversight, and Massachusetts’ Attorney General, Maura Healey, even announced an investigation.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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