Privacy Concerns After the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal

A cross-regional cross-language Twitter study about a major privacy scandal

Introduction

In 2018, the firm Cambridge Analytica was accused of collecting and using the personal information of over 87 million Facebook users without their authorization. Opinions, facts, and stories related to it were shared on social media, including Twitter, where the hashtag #DeleteFacebook became a trending topic for several days.

While there is increasing global attention to data privacy, most privacy research is only conducted …

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