According to data abuse allegations on Facebook, Elon Musk has shut down accounts of his companies SpaceX and Tesla. On Twitter, he was asked by a user to delete site of space group SpaceX – Musk immediately replied, “I didn’t know re was one. Going to do it. ” Both sides followed around 2.6 million Facebook users.
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Under campaign deletefacebook, critics of social network are calling on Facebook to leave – entrepreneur Musk is first prominent supporter. Previously, Commerzbank and Mozilla had stopped advertising on Facebook because of data scandal.
I didn’t realize re was one. Will do.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018
Last weekend it was known that analysis company Cambridge Analytica could gain unauthorized access to data from more than 50 million Facebook users. These were presumably used to help US President Donald Trump in election campaign.
Cambridge Analytica Office Searches
Meanwhile, in London, employees of data protection authority have searched offices of Cambridge Analytica. The search warrant had previously been requested by Authority, British media reported. The analysis firm had not responded to a request within a set period of time, informed Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) of reasoning.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has already publicly apologized for scandal. “That was a great breach of trust. It’s really sorry this happened, “he said on CNN. However, misuse of data for Facebook is also a problem in USA: senior US politicians called on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to face critical questions in front of a committee in Washington.
