The company itself has been in charge of recognizing that the most serious case that they have suffered against the privacy of their users amounts to 87 million. This figure remains a long way from the 50 million customers originally stated they would be initially affected.
The truth is that we have been speculating for a long time about the security of our data in Mark Zuckerberg's social network, and the scandal of the British Cambridge Analytica, ended up uncovering a real problem with third-party permissions and people's privacy that offered -in the past- Facebook.
A problem for 87 million people
And it is that possibly this problem in the privacy of the people could have been avoided, but now it is no longer possible and the data from these 87 million customers possibly they paved the way in the US elections, for Donald Trump and Brexit in the UK.
According to own account Facebook In its official statement, the data of these clients were affected mainly in United States, with more than 81% of the total. Then it is followed by the Philippines, Indonesia and the United Kingdom, which have slightly more than 1% of affected users, mind you, this 1% represents more than a million people in each country ... In any case the figure is much higher than what is known He said at the beginning and although there are no cases in Spain, what happened is really worrying.
In the Facebook statement they also look for solutions and confirm that the APIs that make use of social network pages must be approved by the company, without specifying the method that will be used for that approval. Like the applications that use "likes" or photos to access the user's personal information, all this will now have greater regulation by Facebook, in addition to dropping the history of calls, messages and the like from its servers, according to bill Mike Schroepfer, Facebook CTO.
The important thing now is that the damage is irreparable and with this new number of affected people I am sure that more than one will choose to delete their account (if you haven't already) from Facebook. If you want to delete your account here we leave you a little tutorial how to do it.
