Data Breaches and Scandals - Assignment
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Added on 2021-06-17
Data Breaches and Scandals - Assignment
Added on 2021-06-17
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Running head: DATA BREACHES AND SCANDALSData Breaches and ScandalsName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthors note
DATA BREACHES AND SCANDALS1Executive SummaryThe report presents recent example of data breaches and scandals with its causes, consequencesand possible strategies to mitigate the issues. The recent example taken in this report isFacebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal. The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal is thebiggest scandal till now without getting identified for long. The report presents the details of thescandal showing how the scandal happened from beginning to end. The causes and consequencesof this scandal shows that if it has not been identified then users may have impacted morenegatively. The response from Facebook and Cambridge Analytica is also provided in thisreport. Finally the report concludes that this type of scandal can be severe and possible strategiesthat should be taken to mitigate this type of risks.
DATA BREACHES AND SCANDALS2Table of ContentsExecutive Summary.........................................................................................................................1Introduction......................................................................................................................................3Discussion........................................................................................................................................3Problem of Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal..........................................................3Cause of data scandal...................................................................................................................4Consequences of data scandal.....................................................................................................5Responses....................................................................................................................................6Possible solutions.........................................................................................................................6Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7References........................................................................................................................................8
DATA BREACHES AND SCANDALS3IntroductionThe data breaches and scandals has raised to an alarming rate in the current scenario thathas devastated many organizations and people’s lives. The data breaches and scandals areexplained in this report in terms of a recent scandal that happened. The recent scandal discussedin this report is Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal. Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandalis the recent scandal that has affected huge number of people using Facebook (Keach 2018). Thedetails of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal is discussed briefly in this report. Thepurpose of this report is to identify the scandal happened and propose possible solutions that canhelp to mitigate this type of scandals. The structure of this report is problem of Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal, causes,how it happened, consequences and possible solutions that can be taken to mitigate the scandal. DiscussionProblem of Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal is the biggest crisis of Facebook till date thatstarted from 2014 however, identified recently in 2018. The problem originated in 2014 whenCambridge Analytica, a United States consulting firm for voting process, hired AleksandrKogan, an American researcher, for collecting information from Facebook (Adams, Clark andCraven 2018). The hiring of the researcher was to gather information from Facebook user’sprofile along with their choice of like. Kogan developed an app called this is your digital life,that included a small survey to Facebook users. Approximately 300,000 users in Facebook wereasked to fill the survey for which they were paid money. Kogan the collected data not only fromthe users who participated in the survey but also from their friends whose privacy settingsallowed Kogan to collect data from their profile also (Cadwalladr 2017). The data related to
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