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March 14, 2019

Facebook Faces Criminal Probe for Sharing Private Data with Tech Giants
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Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal probe into whether Facebook
illegally shared the personal data of hundreds of millions of people
with some of the world's largest technology companies. The New York
Times reports a grand jury in New York has subpoenaed information from
at least two prominent makers of smartphones and other devices related
to the alleged privacy breach. This comes as Facebook already faces a
number of ongoing federal investigations, including a criminal probe
into how Facebook gave personal data from some 87 million users to the
firm Cambridge Analytica without their knowledge or consent-data the
company used to sway voters to support President Donald Trump during the
2016 campaign.


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