FIRST COAST CRIME STOPPERS, INC.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA

Based on the survey, which polled 1,000 U.S. adults, the knowledge that information like your Social Security Number and past addresses are in the hands of hackers is slightly more disconcerting than the idea of a political consulting firm using your Facebook data to influence an election. In the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal, a Russian-American developer, Aleksandr Kogan, built a Facebook quiz that was able to exploit a loophole in Facebook's app interface. The loophole helped to gather information on not only the more than 250,000 people who took the quiz, but on all their friends, too - without their knowledge. Cambridge Analytica obtained that data and sold it to Strategic Communication Laboratories, a British consulting firm that worked on the Trump campaign, although the data's sale was prohibited by Facebook. SCL group touts it's an expert in "psychological warfare" and "influence operations." The main issue here is the loophole that led to the initial access to users' friends' Facebook data.