WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US Attorney General in Washington has decided to open a judicial investigation into the social networking site Facebook, against the backdrop of the scandal of selling user data to the British company Cambridge Analytics, a case that broke out earlier this year, US and international media reported yesterday.
The prosecutor in Washington, "Carl Racin," said he had decided to open a judicial investigation into the social networking site Facebook following the failure of the latter to protect its users by allowing the Office of Analysis of British data and information Cambridge Analytics to access information to users and thus deceive them.
The recent decision further deepens the wounds of Facebook, a few days after the exposure of a new press report confirms that the social networking site allowed a number of applications to access the data of users and even reached the limit to give them the power to change or delete the content of private messages.