Facebook revealed today that tens of millions more people might have been exposed in the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal than previously thought and says it will restrict the user data that outsiders can access.
Those developments came as congressional officials say CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify next week, while Facebook unveiled a new privacy policy that aims to explain the data it gathers on users more clearly—but doesn’t actually change what it collects and shares.
Facebook is facing its worst privacy scandal in years following allegations that Cambridge Analytica, a Trump-affiliated data mining firm, used ill-gotten data from millions of users to try to influence elections. Facebook says as many as 87 million people might have had their data accessed—an increase from the 50 million disclosed in published reports.
