Facebook Data Scandal has been in the news for quite sometime now and almost everyone has their own opinion for it. Many people really don’t understand the major questions i.e. what, when, where, why, who, how, etc. I just want to enlighten people by telling them how the internet functions so that they know what they are getting into when they surf the web.
Before getting into the technical stuff, I would like to clear up any doubts people have about the data scandal. Many people believe that it was facebook who leaked the data to Cambridge Analytica and it was facebook who misused your personal information to influence the US elections. Let me be perfectly clear that it was NOT facebook or Zuckerberg or anyone linked to facebook for that matter. Zuckerberg was kind enough to explain to us what actually happened in a lengthy apologetic facebook post. Here is a consolidated summary of the data scandal:
