Mark Zuckerberg Finally Responds to Cambridge Analytica Scandal

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Mark Zuckerberg finally broke his silence about the Cambridge Analytica scandal. (Read more here on TheGuardian.com: Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach)

In a post on Facebook, Zuckerberg said…

“We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can’t then we don’t deserve to serve you. I’ve been working to understand exactly what happened and how to make sure this doesn’t happen again. The good news is that the most important actions to prevent this from happening again today we have already taken years ago. But we also made mistakes, there’s more to do, and we need to step up and do it. Here’s a timeline of the events…”

You can read the full post here.

What You Can Do to Protect Your Data in the Future

Paul J. Fenwick (Image from Twitter)

If you would like to know how to protect your Facebook data in the future, then check out these steps you can take from Paul J. Fenwick, public speaker and self proclaimed “freedom loving scientist”…

If you're a Facebook user, then going to "Settings -> Apps -> Apps Others Use" will let you disable what information your friends' applications can harvest about you.

Because of course one of the most important privacy settings is hidden under "apps" rather than "privacy". pic.twitter.com/jJLAaaeH7o

— Paul Fenwick, @pjf@cloudisland.nz (@pjf) March 20, 2018

I took these steps with my own Facebook account and they were simple and easy to do! I’d encourage you to do take the same steps as soon as possible.