US FTC finds Cambridge Analytica deceived Facebook users

US FTC finds Cambridge Analytica deceived Facebook users
They ordered the company to stop making misrepresentations about its privacy protections. (File/AFP)
Updated 06 December 2019
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US FTC finds Cambridge Analytica deceived Facebook users

US FTC finds Cambridge Analytica deceived Facebook users
  • US regulators said they had found political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had deceived consumers about the collection of Facebook data
  • They ordered the company to stop making misrepresentations about its privacy protections

WASHINGTON: US regulators said they had found political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had deceived consumers about the collection of Facebook data .
The Federal Trade Commission, in a statement announcing its findings, said it had also ordered the company “to continue to apply privacy shield protections to personal information it collected while participating” in EU-US Privacy Shield program.