Surprise! That Cambridge Analytica data *still* hasn't been deleted.

Despite PR-drenched protestations to the contrary, the Facebook data on 50 million people illicitly obtained by Cambridge Analytica has not been completely deleted. 

At least not all of it, anyway. Instead, a decent chunk of the personal information is loose in the wild, and no amount of handwaving from Mark Zuckerberg and Co. will be enough to put it back in the Facebook-shaped bottle. 

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This was made abundantly clear by London's Channel 4, which managed to view the data of 136,000 individuals that is currently in the hands of "a Cambridge Analytica source." In other words,  someone, somewhere, still has this stuff.  Read more...

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