Facebook now faces SEC and FBI probes into Cambridge Analytica affair
San Francisco — Facebook, already facing scrutiny from US legislators and regulators over how a political consulting firm obtained personal information from users of the social network, is now being probed by more federal agencies focusing on the company’s disclosures about the incident. Facebook said on Monday that it was co-operating with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on their reviews of the data transfer to Cambridge Analytica, which worked on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The company was already facing questions from the Federal Trade Commission, Bloomberg reported in March. That month, Facebook responded to reports that Cambridge Analytica obtained the data from a researcher who created a personality quiz app on the social network. More than 87-million people could have been affected, Facebook has said. "We are co-operating with officials in the US, UK and beyond," a Facebook spokesperson said in an e-...
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