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Facebook raises estimate of people with data improperly used to 87 million

Published: 21:33 04 Apr 2018 BST

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Chief technology officer also unveiled new privacy changes

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) today increased its estimate of the number of people whose data may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, a political targeting company, to 87 million.

The social network had originally estimated the number at 50 million. The update came in the next to last paragraph of a blog post from Mike Schroepfer, the company’s chief technology officer. Along with other privacy changes, he said in the post that call and text history logs older than one year will be deleted from Facebook.

 

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