BRUSSELS: Facebook said Thursday it's going to now not compensate customers in the scandal over the misuse of their personal information by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.
The company made the remark in a list of written replies to questions by European Union lawmakers. The solutions were promised after testimony earlier this week by CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Brussels had left EU lawmakers frustrated about a loss of responses.
Cambridge Analytica used the data of millions of Facebook customers to focus on advertisements all through political campaigns, including allegedly america presidential vote.
EU lawmakers said that might make Facebook accountable for reimbursement towards EU customers.
Facebook said the misuse of information was a "breach of trust", however famous that no bank account or credit card details have been shared. And it said there was no evidence EU user information have been involved.
Facebook has said in the past that it first discovered of the breach of privacy more than two years ago, however hadn't discussed it publicly till when the scandal broke out in March.
The information was at first pulled in combination by an app, known as "This Is Your Digital Life", created by researcher Aleksandr Kogan. He paid about 270,000 folks to take part in it. Cambridge Analytica later obtained knowledge from the app for as many as 87 million Facebook customers, as the app additionally vacuumed up information on folks's friends _ including those who never downloaded the app or gave particular consent. It is unclear how most of the customers were in Europe.
Facebook said Thursday that it's accomplishing a "forensic audit of Cambridge Analytica".
The company made the remark in a list of written replies to questions by European Union lawmakers. The solutions were promised after testimony earlier this week by CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Brussels had left EU lawmakers frustrated about a loss of responses.
Cambridge Analytica used the data of millions of Facebook customers to focus on advertisements all through political campaigns, including allegedly america presidential vote.
EU lawmakers said that might make Facebook accountable for reimbursement towards EU customers.
Facebook said the misuse of information was a "breach of trust", however famous that no bank account or credit card details have been shared. And it said there was no evidence EU user information have been involved.
Facebook has said in the past that it first discovered of the breach of privacy more than two years ago, however hadn't discussed it publicly till when the scandal broke out in March.
The information was at first pulled in combination by an app, known as "This Is Your Digital Life", created by researcher Aleksandr Kogan. He paid about 270,000 folks to take part in it. Cambridge Analytica later obtained knowledge from the app for as many as 87 million Facebook customers, as the app additionally vacuumed up information on folks's friends _ including those who never downloaded the app or gave particular consent. It is unclear how most of the customers were in Europe.
Facebook said Thursday that it's accomplishing a "forensic audit of Cambridge Analytica".
Facebook won't pay compensation for Cambridge Analytica case
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