Policy Alert: Rising Powers Unnerved by Cambridge Analytica Scandal

On March 17, 2018, the New York Times and Observer broke the news on Cambridge Analytica’s use of an estimated 85 million Facebook users’ personal information that was “scraped” without authorization in its public relations services–specifically in its dealings with political campaigns. Although the lion’s share of impacted users were American, according to initial Facebook’s estimates, over 560,000 Indian and 443,000 Brazilian users’ data was leaked. The scandal has prompted new debates on individuals’ rights to privacy as well as their governments’ roles in protecting them from violations. In this week’s Policy Alert, we survey this ongoing dialogue within the Rising Powers.Read more here.