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Facebook slammed in international furor over access to member data

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Facebook is facing the ire of U.S. and British lawmakers over how it manages third-party access to its users' information.

At issue is a firm with ties to the 2016 Trump campaign, which reportedly kept the data of potentially tens of millions of people. Officials had said the records were destroyed.

“This is a big deal, when you have that amount of data. And the privacy violations there are significant,” said Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Arizona, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in an appearance on CNN. “So, the question is, who knew it? When did they know it? How long did this go on? And what happens to that data now?”

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