dw – In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook is being forced to answer tough questions in Southeast Asian countries on whether its platform is being abused and if citizens’ data has been misused.
After the latest turn in the ongoing Cambridge Analytica user data scandal, Indonesia’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology said Friday it would investigate Facebook over possible violations of Indonesian privacy law.
In a statement released Wednesday, Facebook revised the amount of its data unlawfully collected by Cambridge Analytica to 87 million users, including data from 1.1 million Indonesian users that could have been “improperly shared” with the Britain-based political consulting firm.