UK watchdog shows how political parties exploit Facebook, personal data
https://www.cnet.com/news/watchdog-report-shows-how-political-parties-exploit-facebook-personal-data/
"We have uncovered a disturbing disregard for voters' personal privacy," UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham wrote in the report, posted in full below. "Social media platforms, political parties, data brokers and credit reference agencies have started to question their own processes -- sending ripples through the big data eco-system."
The agency identified 172 organizations that were involved in data trading, of which 30 were the main focus of this report. The commissioner's office also seized 85 pieces of equipment, including servers, 22 documents and 700 terabytes of data -- it's about 52.5 billion pages.