I bet that the affair with the leak and subsequent misuse of personal data of tens of millions of users FacebookIt has lifted most of you out of your seats. The whole affair is constantly being covered in the media, so it is a bit of an exaggeration to say that you can now meet Zuckerberg on almost every corner. However, the Telegraph portal published an interesting report over the weekend, pointing out that Twitter also collaborated with the company Cambridge Analytica, which has been Facebookobtained and used user data to influence the US presidential election, he cooperated.
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However, if you are expecting a giant Twitter-devastating storm that came after the scandal broke Facebooku, you are probably wrong. Cambridge Analytica did obtain data from Twitter, but according to the available information, it was not personal data. Unlike Twitter, most of the data is FacebookThey are publicly available and therefore not a problem to obtain. However, the company with the blue bird in its emblem decided toeventactively block all ads associated with Cambridge Analytica. The main reason is that Twitter strictly disagrees with the company's business model and wants to prevent possible unfair practices by Cambridge Analytica by blocking ads. The company also allegedly paid Twitter in 2015 for one day of access to a random sample of data.
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So if you use Twitter, you don't have to worry about data misuse. Indeed, only the data on it that can be seen by all other users are actually exploitable. Even so, Twitter's cooperation with Cambridge Analytica is quite interesting and only confirms the words of some experts who are convinced that the recent scandal is only the tip of a giant iceberg.
