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Facebook’s use of personal data: it’s complicated

In recent months, Facebook’s handling of personal data has been put under the spotlight. With the revelation of Cambridge Analytica’s role in the Brexit vote and the 2016 election in the United States, Leo Waldock asks if we should be worried about how our personal information is used.

Facebook claims to have 15,000 to 20,000 people working on security and content review. The reason behind lumping security and content review together is somewhat obscure, as the two things are quite separate.

Leo Waldock, freelance IT writer