Vietnam among top 10 countries affected by Cambridge Analytica scandalVietnam is among top 10 countries in which information of Facebook users may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, according to Facebook chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer. Cambridge Analytica, a UK-based data collection and analysis company, was reported on March 19 to have wrongly collected information and data from about 50 million Facebook users around the world. Mike confirmed in his April 4 post on Facebook Newsroom the total number of Facebook users affected by the case has reached 87 million. In Mike’s post, Vietnam ranks ninth of the 10 countries in the list with more than 427,000 Facebook users that have unwillingly shared their personal data and information with Cambridge Analytica. The top country is the US with more than 70.6 million users, followed by the Philippines (nearly 1.2 million), Indonesia and the UK (nearly 1.1 million each).

Source: VietNamNet News April 05, 2018 13:52 UTC