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Facebook’s 2017 Privacy Audit Didn’t Catch Cambridge Analytica

Facebook’s 2017 Privacy Audit Didn’t Catch Cambridge Analytica

Facebook’s 2017 Privacy Audit Didn’t Catch Cambridge Analytica

Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer

April 24, 20185m 12s

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Two years after Facebook learned that a university researcher had given political consultancy Cambridge Analytica personal information on millions of Facebook users, a government-mandated outside audit of Facebook’s privacy practices found nothing wrong. The April 2017 audit, by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), had been required as part of a 2011 consent decree between Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission.

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