{"id":236467,"date":"2018-04-09T10:11:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T08:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=236467"},"modified":"2018-04-09T10:11:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T08:11:11","slug":"facebook-to-contact-87-million-users-over-data-leak-with-60000-potentially-impacted-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/236467\/facebook-to-contact-87-million-users-over-data-leak-with-60000-potentially-impacted-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook to contact 87 million users over data leak &#8211; with 60,000 potentially impacted in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook will contact 87 million users on Monday to inform them their data was leaked to Cambridge Analytica, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/apr\/08\/facebook-to-contact-the-87-million-users-affected-by-data-breach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of affected users \u2013 70 million \u2013 are from the United States; however, in South Africa, 59,777 users were potentially impacted, <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/255103-cambridge-analytica-got-data-of-facebook-users-in-south-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MyBroadband<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The data was obtained through an app\u00a0called \u201c<em>thisisyourdigitallife<\/em>\u201d, a personality test which was developed by Cambridge University academic Aleksandr Kogan.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook users who used the app shared information about their Facebook friends in the process, resulting in the data of people being collected.<\/p>\n<p>Kogan then shared the data with Cambridge Analytica, and Facebook said this was against its terms of use.<\/p>\n<p>According to Facebook,\u00a033 users in South Africa installed Kogan\u2019s app. In total, 59,777 users were potentially impacted in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>These include friends of those who would have installed the app elsewhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone globally on their Facebook page will see an alert leading them to the apps setting where they can review the apps they\u2019ve allowed to access to their data,&#8221; said Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Additionally, those potentially impacted by Cambridge Analytica will also see the alert with additional language which will then take them to see what data might have been shared.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Countries like the UK, Philippines, and Indonesia have over a million people each who may have had their personal information harvested.<\/p>\n<p>All 2.2 billion users on Facebook will also receive a &#8220;Protecting Your Information&#8221; notice. It will include a link to see what apps you use and what information has been shared with those apps.<\/p>\n<p>From there, Facebook will let you turn off apps individually, or disable third-party access.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/234703\/its-time-to-make-our-privacy-tools-easier-to-find-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It\u2019s time to make our privacy tools easier to find: Facebook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook will contact 87 million users on Monday to inform them their data was leaked to Cambridge Analytic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":43007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-236467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236467"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236493,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236467\/revisions\/236493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}