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Facebook has said 78 Nigerian users of the social media platform downloaded and installed the controversial Cambridge Analytica app that meddled with the privacy data of over 87 million of its users.
The communications team of the social media platform disclosed that the 78 Nigerian Facebook users downloaded and installed the ‘This Is Your Digital Life’ quiz app and impacted about 271,469 other Nigerian users.
Facebook said most of the affected users are in the U.S., though there are over a million each in the Philippines, Indonesia and the UK.
Meanwhile, Facebook has started notifying all the users who were affected by the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal that was initiated by Cambridge University Professor named Aleksandr Kogan.
“In addition, the 87 million users who might have had their data shared with Cambridge Analytica will get a more detailed message informing them of this.
“Additionally, those potentially impacted by CA will also see the alert which will then take them to see what data might have been shared,” the social media firm stated.
While not everyone has received the notification yet, Facebook’s help center now has a section that tells users whether they or their friend(s) were affected.
Affected users will be prompted to change app settings, but it’s worth checking over the list of Facebook apps you have to ensure you remove ones you no longer need.
Facebook is now implementing platform changes to prevent other Facebook apps from improperly obtaining data again in the future.
The company is looking for “suspicious activity” from developers to audit them, following similar app restriction changes made back in 2014.