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In total, more than 87 million users worldwide were caught up in the data scandal when Cambridge Analytica allegedly used its data to influence the 2016 U.S. election.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has acknowledged that most of its 2.2 billion members have probably had their without their consent.
Zuckerberg was scheduled to testify in front of U.S. Congress Tuesday, and the company he founded in college is being investigated in the U.K. and by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
The Canadian privacy commissioner has already launched a probe into the unauthorized access and use of Facebook user profiles, while the B.C. commissioner is helping the U.K. in its investigation.
Both watchdogs are also another firm, Victoria-based Aggregate IQ, to see if it and Facebook breached privacy laws.
The small tech firm is accused of helping to influence Britain香蕉视频直播檚 vote to leave the European Union in 2016.
- with files from the Canadian Press
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