5 minutes agoFacebook scandal included Kosovo, data was stolen during the PDK campaign New Mission
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Facebook Executive Director Mark Zuckerberg has faced difficult questions in Congress following publications that the political firm associated with the campaign of President Trump, Cambridge Analytica, received the data of 87 million users of the social media site during the 2016 elections. However, this scandal seems to have affected Kosovo as well. [...]
Facebook Executive Director Mark Zuckerberg has faced difficult questions in Congress following publications that the political firm associated with the campaign of President Trump, Cambridge Analytica, received the data of 87 million users of the social media site during the 2016 elections.
However, this scandal seems to have affected Kosovo as well.
The cyber security expert in Kosovo, Iron Doll, who has mentioned the New Mission campaign, which was held on social networks by PDK.
Read his full publication:
“The data was stolen even in Kosovo”
The Facebook scandal vs Cambridge Analytica is one of hundreds of thousands of cases when the OpenGraph Facebook platform, but other online platforms are abused to violate the rights of citizens' privacy. Similar cases of privacy invasion through apps as Alexandr Kogan's questionnaire has had in Kosovo as well.
For example, the entire campaign “New Mission” and “Employment Fund”, developed on social networks from PDK, is based on an app on Facebook, which has also made the collection of citizen data.
According to PDK statements at the time there were 200,000 registered citizens. I don't know the depth of the information that this app has collected, but OpenGraff has at the time allowed deep details to be taken not only of the person who is enrolled on the app but also of his friends on Facebook.
So technically if this Facebook app had 200,000 subscribers, the company contracted by the PDK to manage the campaign “New Mission” has collected the personal information of more or less all Kosovo citizens. Would it have been nice to care where these data are today and what are they used for?
