The ‘Whistleblower’ lets the cat out!

Going by the New York Times report, the dataset by Cambridge Analytica is said to contain data only of 50 million Facebook users. However, if Facebook statement has to be given credence, with 70.6 million of Facebook users from the US alone, the total people whose data was shared went up to 87 million profiles. This statement was avowed by both Facebook and the ex-employee of Cambridge Analytica, Christopher Wylie who was also later famous as the ‘whistleblower’ and was at cross swords with the CA statement which says it only gathered 30 million Facebook user profiles. In an interview to ‘The Observer’ magazine, Christopher Wylie takes it upon himself as the whistleblower to lift the lid on CA’s data breaching facts. The turn up of events also saw the suspension of the controversial data firm’s services by the tech giant, Facebook.   ( The aftermath resulting in a series of events following the CA’s data leak: Image source - PressGazette )