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Facebook: Data from up to 87 million people improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica

By Kelly Cohen
Published April 4, 2018 6:56pm ET
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Facebook: Data from up to 87 million people improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica
The verified Twitter Inc. page of Cambridge Analytica, displaying their logo and company name, sit on an Apple Inc. iPhone against a backdrop of the Facebook Inc. sign shown on a computer screen in this arranged photograph in London, U.K. Facebook's co-founder and chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg, has been called to appear before a House panel as fallout continues from revelations that Cambridge Analytica had siphoned data from some 50 million Facebook users as it built a election-consulting company that boasted it could sway voters in contests all over the world. | (Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg)

Facebook admitted Wednesday that personal data from as many as 87 million users was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, after originally estimating that 50 million people were affected.

Facebook released the new number new the bottom of a lengthy blog post describing how it would limit access to Facebook users’ information.

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