The time has come for Mark Zuckerberg to try to explain to the Congress of the United States of America what has happened with the Facebook leaks and the lack of security. The CEO and creator of the largest social network in the history of the Internet has sung the "mea culpa" at the situation that occurred and has taken responsibility.
Now It is time to know how far the echo of the data leak and the Cambridge Analytica disaster has reached, so we are going to show you how you can find out if you are one of those affected. This can be a before and after of the way in which usurers take the fact of sharing our personal data through the network. It is quite clear that we are completely "sold".
These have been the words left by the CEO of Facebook while being asked very vehemently by North American politicians.
Now it is clear that we did not do enough to prevent these tools from being used for damage as well. That applies to fake news, foreign election interference, and hate speech, as well as developers' use of data privacy.
The recipe was clear, nothing in Mark Zuckerberg's sphere remains on the air, The charismatic creator of Facebook has given totally decaffeinated answers and little else that he now wants to make it seem like he is a victim of everything that has happened in recent days with his social network. The data should be guarded with suspicion, however, and despite the efforts of government and public organizations, these types of scandals continue to occur.
We didn't have a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake. It was my mistake, and I'm sorry. I started Facebook, I manage it and I am responsible for what happens here
How to know if my Facebook data has been leaked
The case of Cambridge Analytica and the almost consensual "theft" of Facebook now makes us question how we store our data on the social network. The first thing is to discover whether or not we have been affected by the scandal. You should know that most of these users are of North American origin, however, as a "good social network" that it is, the fabric became almost infinite. Therefore, Neither you, a user from Chile, Peru, Spain and even Italy, are not free from being affected by data collection by Cambridge Analytica.
Facebook has theoretically created an automatic system that will show us an alert message at the top of the web version or Facebook application. If we click on the notification they will give us advice on how to deactivate the applications and websites with which we share our data and other considerations. However, 87 million are many users, despite the fact that approximately 70 million reside in the United States of America. Facebook indicated a few days ago that in the European Union 2,7 million citizens in total were affected, of which something 1 million were from the United Kingdom. In Spain the number of affected has been estimated at 140.000 people.
However, the easiest and most direct way to know if your data has been affected in the Cambridge Analytica scandal is to press THIS LINK that Facebook has provided to the media and Facebook users. In short, we can only hope that society has learned something from this, especially the American user, practically married to Facebook and who saw Mark Zuckerberg as a true example to follow. What is very clear is that if they are not charging us for a service, it is because we are providing the service, or it is us. Our personal data are the oil of the XNUMXst century as they allow us to control our consumption habits and shape the way we spend money, the reason for everything.