Facebook trust levels collapse after Cambridge Analytica data scandal - Siyalla
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Description: Trust in Facebook has spectacularly nosedived after its enormous data breach. Trust in Facebook's information taking care of has drastically fell after the Cambridge Analytica embarrassment. A study by think-tank the Ponemon Institute found just 27% of people think Facebook will protect their privacy, compared to 79%
Date: 2018-04-17T11:14:16+00:00

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# Facebook trust levels collapse after Cambridge Analytica data scandal

Mark Zuckerberg looks glum during Congress grilling. (Reuters)

### Trust in Facebook has spectacularly nosedived after its enormous data breach

- Trust in Facebook’s information taking care of has drastically fell after the Cambridge Analytica embarrassment.
- An examination by think-tank the Ponemon Institute discovered only 27% of individuals figure Facebook will secure their protection, contrasted with 79% of every 2017.
- Respondents were disturbed that Facebook did not admit to the information break in 2015.

Trust in Facebook has tremendously crumpled after Cambridge Analytica (CA) collected the information of 87 million clients.

A review of 3,000 individuals by US think-tank the Ponemon Institute, announced by The Financial Times, demonstrated that clients are essentially more incredulous that Facebook will deal with their own data with mind than they were a year ago.

In the week after previous CA staff member Christopher Wylie’s disclosures about the information break, only 27% of respondents to the Ponemon consider concurred with the announcement: “Facebook is focused on securing the protection of my own data.”

This was a considerable drop on the 79% of individuals who concurred with this announcement in 2017. Truth be told, the chart underneath demonstrates that trust in Facebook’s information taking care of had been drifting up since 2015.

Business Insider/FT/Ponemon Institute

> “They put Facebook on such a high platform, to the point that the base is more difficult,”

Ponemon Chairman Larry Ponemon told the FT. Business Insider has reached the research organization for the full aftereffects of its review.

Original article by Jake Kanter

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