Most of Facebook's user data has been processed and used by many companies.
According to Sandy Parakilas, a former platform administrator and responsible for investigating data breaches committed by software developers between 2011-2012, the company's senior executives need to change their lax approach to data protection.
Facebook has terms and service agreements that most users don’t understand when they sign up for the platform. In addition, the company has not used enforcement mechanisms, including checks on external developers, to ensure that data is not misused.
Sandy Parakilas investigated data breaches by manufacturers that conducted scientific research. The company collected user data from millions of Facebook profiles and gave it to Cambridge Analytica to promote Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign.
He also said that one of the platform warned him that he wasn't going to find anything by searching and that Facebook was in a strong enough position to know about the abuse that was happening.
The former employee reported his concerns to the media about privacy at Facebook four months ago, and certainly his direct involvement in Facebook's privacy policy sheds light on the scandal between Cambridge Analytics and Facebook.
