Check right now if Cambridge Analytica used your Facebook data

A new page in Facebook's Help Center explains if you were affected.

Check right now if Cambridge Analytica used your Facebook data

 In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, you're in all likelihood questioning: Was I genuinely affected? After all, the business enterprise received statistics on 87 million customers  Facebook has, thankfully, commenced sending News Feed notifications to explain whether or not users' bills have been affected. If you are still waiting for yours to come thru, however, you could visit this web page and find out immediately. In brief, it explains in case you or your friends ever logged into This Is Your Digital Life — the quiz app advanced by means of college researcher Dr Aleksandr Kogan, which Cambridge Analytica used to profile and manipulate customers.

 

It's the ultra-modern try through Facebook to apologise for what took place and make sure comparable facts harvesting doesn't appear once more. Chief govt Mark Zuckerberg has promised to analyze "every app that has access to a massive quantity of information." The business enterprise has already suspended AggregateIQ and CubeYou for Cambridge Analytica-fashion strategies, and reinforced a gaggle of facts rules, which encompass disabling the potential to look for customers with the aid of email address and contact variety, and proscribing the statistics available thru its Events API. Zuckerberg, in case you want a reminder, is scheduled to testify at a joint Senate hearing later these days.