{"id":59003,"date":"2018-04-10T14:58:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T19:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=59003"},"modified":"2018-04-10T14:58:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T19:58:02","slug":"facebook-leak-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/facebook-leak-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the Facebook Leak Impact You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Find Out If Your Information Was Harvested from Facebook<\/h3>\n<p>Facebook, continues to work toward rebuilding their brand after facing a major security scandal alongside London&#8217;s elections consultancy, Cambridge Analytica.\u00a0 Reports have confirmed personal data was harvested from the social media giant from Cambridge Analytica.\u00a0 It is believed, the election firm then used the data to show specific information on U.S. presidential candidates prior to the 2016 election.\u00a0 There are speculations that by segmenting the content shown to different Facebook users based on their personal information, their perceptions of the election candidates were impaired.\u00a0 Therefore, theoretically this may have made voters vote a different way than had they never been shown the information segmented based on their personal information.\u00a0 Due to those concerns, some reporting outlets believe the U.S. election results were tampered with.\u00a0 Whether or not this is true, can be debated.<\/p>\n<p>However, what Facebook users must be concerned with is if their information was involved with this scandal.\u00a0 The likelihood of you, or someone you know being impacted is quite high, as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/technology\/facebook-data-breach-affected-up-to-87-million-users-1.3450735\">reports<\/a> have confirmed 87 million accounts were involved.<\/p>\n<p>To find out, you&#8217;ll need to log into your Facebook account.\u00a0 After doing so, you may go to this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/1873665312923476?helpref=search&amp;sr=1&amp;query=cambridge\">website<\/a>.\u00a0 Roughly halfway down the page, you&#8217;ll see this &#8220;Was My Information Shared&#8221; 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