Facebook
says up to 2.7 million Facebook users in the European Union have been affected
by the data privacy scandal, a spokesman for the European Commission said on
Friday.
“Facebook confirmed to us that the data of overall up to 2.7 million …
people in the EU may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica,”
said Christian Wigand, a commission spokesman.
On Wednesday, Facebook admitted
that it had “improperly shared” the personal data of 87 million Facebook users,
an increase of more than 30 million from previous estimates, with the British
data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica.
The firm used the information, without
users’ consent, to support the campaign for Britain’s exit from the European
Union, as well as the 2016 election campaign of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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