PwC cleared Facebook’s privacy practices during Cambridge Analytica period
Bengaluru — Facebook’s privacy practices were cleared by auditing firm PwC in an assessment completed in the last year of the period during which Cambridge Analytica gained access to the personal data of millions of Facebook users. Facebook had established and implemented a comprehensive privacy programme, and its privacy controls were operating with sufficient effectiveness to provide reasonable assurance to protect the privacy of covered information, PwC said in a report submitted to the Federal Trade Commission, dated December 2017 on the FTC website. The report was an assessment of the period from Februay 12 2015 to February 11 2017. The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday on the PwC assessment submitted to the FTC. PwC declined to comment when contacted by Reuters. Facebook has been under scrutiny from legislators across the world since disclosing that the personal information of 87-million Facebook users wrongly ended up in the hands of Cambridge Analytica, a British firm...
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