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Consumer watchdog may investigate if Facebook data illegally used in Australian elections The Guardian Fifty million Facebook profiles were harvested for data analytics company Cambridge Analytica to help Donald Trump with the US election. Photograph: Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images. The Australian consumer watchdog could investigate if data analytics ... Facebook value plunges $37bn amid data concernsSky News What Facebook knows about you - and why it's being accused of threatening our democracyMirror.co.uk Lessons from Cambridge Analytica: how to protect your dataFinancial Times Evening Standard -The Week UK -The Argus -BBC News all 1,074 news articles »

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