Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Brittany Kaiser says that online data protection has scarcely improved since she testified to UK parliament in 2018 that millions of people may have had their Facebook data harvested.
The scandal broke in 2016 after it emerged that more than 87 million people may have had their data collected on Facebook through a personality quiz.
Though it is unclear how that data was used, Kaiser said that Cambridge Analytica did "chargeable work" with Donald Trump’s election campaign and Leave. EU Brexit. Both organisations said there was no contract signed to work with the analytics company.
“I wish that I could say that it has gotten better. I would say there are now many parts of the world where people are starting to be legally protected, which wasn't the case in 2018,” Kaiser told Euronews Next.
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“If you don't want to spend a lot of time in a courtroom or dealing with the law, I would say technically we are less protected because...
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