10-04-2018 17:45 via theguardian.com

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica face class action lawsuit

Lawyers in UK and US allege four firms misused personal data of more than 71m people
Five things we learned from Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook hearingBritish and US lawyers have launched a joint class action against Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and two other companies for allegedly misusing the personal data of more than 71 million people.The lawsuit claims the firms obtained users’ private information from the social media network to develop “political propaganda campaigns&rdquo
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