How to check if your Facebook data was shared with Cambridge Analytica

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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/04/10/how-to-check-if-your-facebook-data-was-shared-with-cambridge-analytica/

We’re sure you’ve heard of Cambridge Analytica (CA), the controversial company that harvested data from Facebook and then used it in ways that you almost certainly wouldn’t have wanted.


About a month ago, we reported how a CA whistleblower named Christopher Wylie claimed that the company had allegedly:

…exploited Facebook to harvest millions of people’s profiles. And built models to exploit what we knew about them and target their inner demons. That was the basis the entire company was built on.​

Were you affected?

The thing is that CA didn’t crack passwords, break into accounts, rely on zillions of fake profiles, exploit programming vulnerabilities, or do anything that was technically out of order.

Instead, CA persuaded enough people to trust and approve its Facebook app, called “This is Your Digital Life”, that it was able to access, accumulate and allegedly to abuse personal data from millions of users.

That’s because the app grabbed permission to access data not only about you, but about your Facebook friends.
In other words, if one of your friends installed the app, then they might have shared with CA various information that you’d shared with them, even if you didn’t install the app yourself.

But how to find out which of your friends (some of whom may be ex-friends by now) installed the app, and how to be sure that they remember correctly whether they used the app or not?
Facebook has now come up with a way, given that it has logs that show who used the app, and who was friends with them.

We used this link:
How can I tell if my information was shared with Cambridge Analytica? | Facebook Help Center | Facebook

 

[frogboy]

No, I was lucky and got a clean bill of health no snooping on me from FB.

 

[Viking]

No, I was lucky and got a clean bill of health no snooping on me from FB.

Likewise. (Acording to the site)

 

[Ink]

Useful for users who have existing Facebook profiles, no light has been shed on those who no longer have an account.

 

[ravi prakash saini]

all clear for me to
but can we trust the result