Cambridge Analytica and Facebook Scandal (Case study- Introduction)

To start, let's understand who is Cambridge Analytica and what it has to do with Facebook and why it sparked a major scandal that has to change the data protection laws around the world.

Cambridge Analytica is a company that analyse political data and sell for third-parties, is believed that they have helped in over thousands of political campaigns around the world. But how do they get their data? And that is where Facebook comes along.

In this segment of this blog, we will discuss and evaluate everything that happened and the consequence that has left behind.  

You, as the reader, are more than welcome to comment and argue or point of view as I am interested to know how much you know about and what do you know.


Resource:

En.wikipedia.org. 2020. Cambridge Analytica. [online] Available at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica> [Accessed 30 November 2020].

Comments