The Scarlet Number: Is Pittsburgh’s Ethically Risky System Of Big Data For Foster Care Coming To California? [witnessla.com]

Alicia Doktor 4/12/184:00 AM

One massive leak of middle-class Americans’ data seems to have the whole world in an uproar.

A firm known as Cambridge Analytica allegedly improperly obtained personal information given to Facebook by 87 million people. Then, according to The New York Times, “The firm, which was tied to President Trump’s 2016 campaign, used the data to target messages to voters.”

Americans gave this information to Facebook voluntarily. Now that Facebook apparently failed to keep it secure, some Americans are exercising their right to delete their Facebook accounts. Others are exercising their right to share less information on Facebook.

[For more on this story by Richard Wexler, http://witnessla.com/op-ed-the...oming-to-california/]

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