Facebook owner to settle class-action suit over Cambridge Analytica scandal – The Guardian (Alex Hern | December 2022)
When it broke, the Cambridge Analytica case highlighted the degree to which social media companies make astounding amounts of money from our personal information, the degree to which we don’t understand the scant privacy protection around our personal information and how the information of unsuspecting family and friends was trawled by Cambridge Analytica. It also shone a light on how the sophisticated analysis of the ill-gotten data facilitated the BREXIT and the original election of Trump. We have included links to seven related items.