Facebook Whistleblowing: Scandal, Impact, and Governance Issues

FACEBOOK WHISTLE-
BLOWING

INTRODUCTION
• The Facebook Cambridge analytical was one of
the political scandals that occurred in the year
2018.
• In which Facebook exposed data of 87 million
users.
• The Cambridge analytical CEO reached out to
WikiLeaks founder and observed that hackers
hacked the servers and networks.

RELEVANT FACTS
• In 2010, Facebook developed an open graph
process that enables third party developers to
access users accounts.
• This application collects users information and
produces a psychological profile.
• This application also collected the data of their
friends by using the open graph algorithm In the
year 2017, it is evaluated that the personal
information of 50 million consumers was collected
by Cambridge analyitca.

RELEVANT FACTS
• This information and data were provided by the
whistle blower Christopher Wylie.
• This whistle blower also analysed that this data
and information used to identify the potential
voters that supported Donald trump.
• According to Facebook CEO, it was a mistake of
organization and they were not able to secure
users data.