Facebook announced a possible leakage to Cambridge Analytica 87 million users

The technical director of the Facebook social network Mike Shopfer against the background of the scandal around the leakage of personal data of users, which, in particular, were then used to influence the elections in dozens of countries around the world, said that personal information was 87 million people, not 50 million, as reported earlier, fell into the hands of third parties.

In his statement, Shopfer spoke about innovations on social networks, which will significantly increase the safety of personal data. In addition, he promised that next week users would have the opportunity to check if Cambridge Analytica received access to their data.

“We assume that the data of 87 million people on Facebook, mainly US citizens, were illegally provided by Cambridge Analytica,” the technical director of the social network emphasized.

The other day, the head of the American Investment Fund, which owns Facebook shares for a total of about $ 1 billion, Scott Stringer stated that the founder of the Facebook social network Mark Zuckerberg should resign from the post of head of the company due to the flared scandal.

The scandal around Facebook flared up in mid -March after revealing publications in a number of large publications. Then the social network blocked the Cambridge Analytica page, as well as the professor of psychology at the University of Cambridge, Alexander Kogan, who transmitted data about Facebook users to third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, through the This -Urdigitallife application on the social network platform, which should be It was a psychological portrait of the user.

On March 27, the former Cambridge Analytica employee Christopher Wilely said that the Canadian company Aggregateiq (AIQ) has developed a Ripon computer program, which was used to identify supporters of the Republican Party before the US presidential election. Earlier, it was Wiley in a conversation with the media that Cambridge Analytica used Facebook users to help Donald Trump's campaign headquarters.

The founder of the social network Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, after numerous calls, agreed to come to the hearing to the US Congress, where he will probably be asked a lot of questions about a large -scale leak of data.

Earlier, Tsuckerberg promised to conduct a full audit of all operations carried out on Facebook in connection with the scandal caused by the collection of data from users of the social network, and apologized for leakage, redeeming the stripes in the largest newspapers of the United States and Great Britain.