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Article Title: User Data Privacy: Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and Privacy Protection

Find article online: http://resolver.scholarsportal.info/resolve/00189162/v51i0008/56_udpfcaapp.xml

doi: 10.1109/MC.2018.3191268

Contents 1 Context 2 Overview 3 Strengths and Weaknesses 4 Assessment

Context

With the revelation that Facebook handed over personally identifiable information of more than 87 million users to Cambridge Analytica, it is now imperative that comprehensive privacy policy laws be developed. Technologists, researchers, and innovators should meaningfully contribute to the development of these policies. The ubiquity of data gathering,storage, and analytics on our devices, systems, applications, and social media platforms—aimed at personalizing experiences, optimizing sales, and maximizing return—have been disruptive in shaping the global economy, the flow of ideas, and access to information that resulted in the advancement of innovation around the information marketplace.

Overview

The discovery that Facebook gave unfettered and unauthorized access to personally identifiable information (PII) of more than 87 million unsuspecting Facebook users to the data firm Cambridge Analytica has fueled growing interest in the debate over technology’s societal impact and risks to citizens’ privacy and well-being. It is clear that national governance institutions demonstrably lack the ability to anticipate technology’s future impact on the rights and duties of its citizens, much less its impact on the structure of society, ideological divides, and political schisms among its citizens and the expansion of identity politics promoted by isolated social and news media echo chambers.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Assessment

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