Australia's Privacy Commissioner to investigate Facebook

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To run pages using fake accounts will be much harder now on. Source: AP

Australia's Privacy Commissioner will investigate Facebook after revelations more than 300,000 Australians may have had their data used without their knowledge. It comes weeks after claims first surfaced that the data firm Cambridge Analytica tapped user profiles to influence the 2016 United States presidential election.



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