Facebook faces backlash as it's outfoxed by Cambridge Analytica over users' dataFacebook's mishandling of personal data has been called "a disgusting breach of privacy" and now politicians want co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg to front up. Facebook let the data mining firm Cambridge Analytica abscond with data from tens of millions of users - the third time in roughly a year the company appears to have been outfoxed by crafty outsiders in this way. READ MORE:* Facebook bans Trump-affiliated data firm Cambridge Analytica* Facebook to hand over Trump-Russia ads* Facebook: Russia ads reached 126m usersIn the case of Cambridge, Facebook says the main problem involved the transfer of data to a third party - not its collection in the first place. "It's a disgusting abuse of privacy," said Larry Ponemon, founder of the privacy research firm Ponemon Institute. Facebook continued to insist that the Cambridge data collection was not a "data breach" because "everyone involved gave their consent" to share their data.

Source: Stuff March 18, 2018 20:58 UTC