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Facebook's biggest bully in history, such is the nonsense of the Cambridge Analytica scandal

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Facebook's biggest bully in history, such is the nonsense of the Cambridge Analytica scandal In 2014, American citizens were asked to download an app (a personality quiz app) to answer questions for research. Different types of personal questions were placed in it. But to answer all of them, you had to login to Facebook. Those who answered in this way were also given a minimum of five dollars. All these works were done by Alexander Kogan for Cambridge Analytica, a British company that provides political advice. Kogan collected the data of millions of Facebook users from the app. Which was used by Cambridge Analytica for various purposes. Although this matter came out only in 2015, it came to the surface only in 2018. Facebook was seriously accused of stealing user data. He also had to pay millions of dollars in fines. Today, if any organization and company uses the user's data without their consent, this incident is considered connected. Now the incident is known as 'Facebo

Case filed in India against Cambridge Analytica for stealing Facebook data

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Case filed in India against Cambridge Analytica for stealing Facebook data A case has been filed in India against the British company Cambridge Analytica for stealing the data of an Indian Facebook user. In India, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a case against Cambridge Analytics for stealing data from Facebook. Cambridge Analytica has been providing political advice in particular. According to the CBI, the company claims to have stolen the data of more than 562,000 Indian Facebook users. Earlier, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had said that the CBI had been tasked with investigating Cambridge Analytics, which was accused of stealing Facebook's data. Based on that, the CIB has filed a case against the company. Another company, Global Science Research (GSRL), has also been sued in the same incident. A study by the CBI found that Global Science Research had stolen data from 5.62 million Facebook users in India and that the data had increased with Cambridge Ana