Kevin Chan, head of public policy for Facebook in Canada apologized to Canadians whose accounts were compromised, told a parliamentary committee on Thursday that the social media giant is “sorry” for what amounts to “a huge breach of trust” when 272 Canadians participated in a personality quiz that allowed the researcher behind the Cambridge Analytica scandal to harvest the data of more than 622,000 Canadians: http://bit.ly/2HPWiVd 😬
In most cases, the data was mined without the knowledge or consent of those affected.