Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg Says Data-Sharing Tool Complied With FTC
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Facebook Inc. said a tool that let people share their friends’ data with developers was in compliance with a 2011 privacy agreement with the Federal Trade Commission.
That’s the feature that allowed a researcher to get information on as many as 87 million people from 270,000 users who downloaded his quiz app. He later transferred the data to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.