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Scrutiny falls on Facebook following reports of data harvesting for Trump campaign

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Following The Guardian breaking this story over the weekend, concern has grown over how this happened and why nothing was done earlier to rectify the issue. #DeleteFacebook is trending with many users understandably angry over how their data was allegedly harvested and used to influence political elections.


What do you think should be done, firstly to rectify this issue and secondly to prevent things like this happening in future?
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    John Haith‍ Agreed, often with these types of things it is more effort to withdraw then to sign up. However I'm not sure it was all about education as they harvested the details of the users Facebook friends as well, so even those who do know better were affected as well

    Gordon Shorten‍ The GDPR regulations don't come into law until May so I'm not sure it affects this case, but is likely to affect similar cases in future. That said, if the allegations are correct, the companies involved didn't seem that bothered about the current data protection rules so not sure GDPR would've worried them wink
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    John Haith‍ Agreed, often with these types of things it is more effort to withdraw then to sign up. However I'm not sure it was all about education as they harvested the details of the users Facebook friends as well, so even those who do know better were affected as well

    Gordon Shorten‍ The GDPR regulations don't come into law until May so I'm not sure it affects this case, but is likely to affect similar cases in future. That said, if the allegations are correct, the companies involved didn't seem that bothered about the current data protection rules so not sure GDPR would've worried them wink
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