Data Analytics, App Developers, and Facebook’s Role in Data Misuse
Facebook has come under increased scrutiny in recent months, the social media giant’s efforts to protect its users’ data questioned.
Now, it has come to light that Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics company that has been credited with playing a role in the Leave campaign for Britain’s EU membership referendum and in the digital operations of Donald Trump’s election campaign, was given access to the personal information of millions of Facebook users through an independent app developer. How is the data collected by Facebook and its app developers used? Is it protected sufficiently? In the discussion that follows, Daphne Keller, Director of Intermediary Liability at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, discusses these issues.
