Facebook sends privacy alerts to affected users
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April 11, 2018
Facebook has begun alerting some users that their data was swept up in the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.
Anthony Bagnetto was one of many people who woke up Tuesday morning to a notification on his Facebook feed informing him that "one of" his friends used Facebook to log into a now-banned personality quiz app called "This Is Your Digital Life." The notice says the app misused the information, including public profile, page likes, birthday and current city, by sharing it with the political data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica.
"Anybody can be taken by this," said Bagnetto, 38, a triathl...
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