Facebook Says EU Data Unlikely Shared With Cambridge Analytica
- Europeans’ data may not have been fed to Cambridge Analytica
- Tech giant comments to EU lawmakers in hearing in Brussels
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Facebook Inc. said private data about its European users may not have fallen into the hands of Cambridge Analytica after all, as the social network continues to fend off criticism about a scandal that sparked global outrage.
“The best information we have suggests that no European user data was shared by Dr. [Aleksandr] Kogan with Cambridge Analytica,” Stephen Satterfield, a privacy policy director at Facebook, told European Union lawmakers at a hearing on Monday.