How to find out if Facebook shared your data with Cambridge Analytica

Facebook landed into trouble with the Cambridge Analytica data leak. All this started in 2014, when an academic of Russian origin at Cambridge University Aleksandr Kogan, created a Facebook app which paid the users to take up a psychological test. The users who took the test shared the data of their Facebook friends with the app and Kogan later sold it to Cambridge Analytica, a voter profiling company in the UK.

This whole data scandal landed Facebook in deep waters and the company is in the damage control mode past 21 days. Recently, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that data of about 87 million people was compromised in the data leak. The company will now be informing the users if their data was compromised in the leak or not.

The social networking giant will be sending a notification to your Facebook newsfeed starting today. In case you profile was obtained by Cambridge Analytica, the notification will tell you that how Facebook has banned a site called "This Is Your Digital Life", as it shared the user data without their consent with Cambridge Analytica.

You can tap on the link to learn how you are affected by the breach. However, if you are not affected then you will get a notification which discusses a new feature which enables the Facebook users to control which apps can access their personal data.



Facebook also announced that it has banned another data analytics firm called CubeYou for improper handling of user data they received from personality quizzes.

Recently, Mark Zuckerberg met US lawmakers to apologise for the social network's misuse of its members' data. "We didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake," he said in written remarks released by the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on Monday. "It was my mistake, and I'm sorry."