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Cambridge Analytica Controversy: A Timeline Of Events

Cambridge Analytica Controversy: A Timeline Of Events

Cambridge Analytica Controversy: A Timeline Of Events
Srishti Deoras·Published Updated

Key takeaways

  • The Cambridge Analytica controversy has significantly highlighted issues surrounding data privacy and user consent.
  • Facebook faced severe backlash for its handling of user data, leading to a ban on Cambridge Analytica.
  • The incident resulted in substantial financial losses for Facebook, amounting to billions in stock market value.
  • The controversy prompted Facebook to take corrective actions, including the dismissal of Cambridge Analytica's CEO.
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The Cambridge Analytica controversy has raised a big question on Facebook’s privacy policy.  It overall raises a concern on data privacy and how it can be prevented from data companies making a wrong use of an user data. While the blame game is on, with Facebook banning the data driven company Cambridge Analytica, it later apologised for not taking enough and timely actions to maintain day privacy. From firing the firm's CEO Alexander Nix to Facebook loosing $60 billion in stock market, the entire episode has kept us fixated on the series of events taking place. We bring to you a timeline of the entire episode, as below:
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