COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW – 03/10/2018
Mathew Ingram
Personal information from tens of millions of Facebook accounts is exposed and used for unknown purposes, due to a series of complicated events involving the social network’s data policies, the details of which remain unclear. Sound familiar? That’s because it could describe a number of similar events in recent memory, including the Cambridge Analytica debacle earlier this year, as well as the latest data breach, in which about 90 million users had their accounts compromised. Facebook announced the latest breach on September 28, saying attackers “exploited a vulnerability in Facebook’s code that impacted ‘View As,’ a feature that lets people see what their own profile looks like to someone else.”