Facebook says Cambridge Analytica may have had data on 87 million people

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Facebook says Cambridge Analytica may have had data on 87 million people
The personal information of up to 87 million Facebook users may have been improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, up from a previous estimate of more than 50 million. Most of the 87 million people whose data was shared with Cambridge Analytica, which worked on US ...

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