Original link: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2168713-huge-new-facebook-data-leak-exposed-intimate-details-of-3m-users/ https://www.newscientist.com/arti

Original link: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2168713-huge-new-facebook-data-leak-exposed-intimate-details-of-3m-users/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2168713-huge-new-facebo... The actual problem here is not that Cambridge Analytica got the data. But that they created a site where this data was made readily available: > Academics at the University of Cambridge distributed the data from the personality quiz app myPersonality to hundreds of researchers via a website with insufficient security provisions, which led to it being left vulnerable to access for four years. Gaining access illicitly was relatively easy.