What’s being done with your data: Experts ask, shouldn’t someone get this under control?

Now that Facebook, Google and Amazon know pretty much everything about us, how they’re using that information is drawing the focus of politicians throughout the Western world, asking in effect: “Shouldn’t something be done about this?”

Revelations that U.K.-based Cambridge Analytica apparently used data from more than 50 million Facebook accounts to try to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election in favour of Donald Trump have sparked criticism over how the giant social networking company protects its users’ data.

Source: What’s being done with your data: Experts ask, shouldn’t someone get this under control? | CBC News