Facebook’s Data-Sharing Scandal: What We Currently Know
By Jennifer Henderson When Carole and I met up for coffee last week, our conversation turned to Facebook's data-sharing scandal involving Cambridge Analytica. Because data was improperly obtained from Facebook, we're curious to see what safeguards the social media giant puts in place to improve data security and how the changes will affect small business, in particular. It will be interesting to see how this story develops over time. Here are a few things we currently know. Trust in Facebook Has Declined Facebook announced on April 5 that 87 million users may have had their Facebook data improperly shared, which is millions more than initially thought. Trust in Facebook was already down after the initial reports that the data was used improperly by Cambridge Analytica. According to a March 2018…
