Privacy experts say numerous Canadians are taking to other social media platforms to join in on the #DeleteFacebook hashtag in the wake of recent revelations about the potential for their personal information to be mined for political gain. I’m out of here.’”Privacy experts say numerous Canadians are taking to other social media platforms to join in on the #DeleteFacebook hashtag. But as the potential loopholes in Facebook’s privacy measures become harder to ignore, those seemingly abstract privacy concerns have come to feel more concrete for many social media users, Smit said. “We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can’t then we don’t deserve to serve you,” Zuckerberg said in a statement. The newspaper reports said Facebook first learned of the leak more than two years ago, but didn’t disclose it until now.

Source: thestar March 22, 2018 00:33 UTC