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IANS: Facebook considered selling users' data to companies some years ago but later decided to act against it, the media reported. According to Arstechnica.com that viewed an unredacted court document, Facebook staff in 2012 considered charging companies at least $250,000 for "access to one of its primary troves of user data -- the Graph API". "In April 2014, Facebook changed the way the previously permissive Graph API works. "The social media giant restricted some data access and eliminated all access to the earlier version by June 2015," the report said on Friday. The Wall Street Journal also reported that "Facebook employees discussed pushing some advertisers to spend more in return for increased access to user information". A failure on Facebook's part to adequately reda...

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder, and CEO of Facebook revealed shocking news during the testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee that even his personal data was taken and sold by UK based analysis firm Cambridge Analytica. 87 million users personal data harvested by the company is used for political purposes in the US presidential elections. In which half of the million data of Indian users. During the series of questions asking by the committee, Zuckerberg was asked if his personal data was included in the information sold to the "malicious third parties" to which he replied "yes". As per the guidelines are given by the US Congress committee, Facebook has started to notify those users whose data have been breached. Zuckerberg said, "it is going to take some time to wor...

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Even Zuckerberg Personal Data was Breached by Cambridge Analytica