Facebook came out swinging on Wednesday, revealing a bunch of changes that will be made to the social network in light of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Continuing its apologetic tour, Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg made plenty of disturbing revelations about the way Facebook hasn’t been protecting your data.
Zuckerberg said that a maximum number of 87 million people may be affected by the Cambridge Analytica data gathering apps. He also said that all 2 billion users should assume that malicious individuals could have scraped their profile data, if certain settings were enabled, revealing that sophisticated attacks were detected on the network, but Facebook chose not to answer them until now. And, of course, Facebook has been reading your Messenger chats. This isn’t really news. Facebook first hinted about the capability a few days ago when Zuckerberg talked to Vox — that’s the same interview during which the exec took several shots at Apple’s Tim Cook. Zuckerberg said that
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