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Facebook Faces Its Worst Crisis With Multiple Open Fronts

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  • The social network faces the worst crisis in its history.
  • Facebook recognizes that it also collects data from those who are not its users.
  • The Senate, to Zuckerberg: "If it does not regulate Facebook, none of us will have privacy."
  • Facebook extends to 87 million those affected by data leakage.

The confession came on Tuesday with the scandal of the massive data leakage still recent: Facebook also collects information even from people outside the social network, in the words of the director of Product Management, David Baser.

This latest revelation, which comes a week after Mark Zuckerberg sits in the Senate of the United States to give explanations for data leakage of 87 million users, adding to the huge mountain of controversies that accumulates the company since two years ago, the most convulsive of the social network. False news, Russian interference, Cambridge Analytica, a scan of conversations or call history of Android have plunged Facebook into a real international crisis that translates into a climate of total concern on the part of users - may have eliminated their account - and of Absolute uncertainty on the part of the company.

Non-users are also in danger

If people who do not use Facebook think they are out of Zuckerberg's radar, they are wrong. David Baser acknowledged yesterday that the social network uses different marketing tools to collect data even from non-users, and the biggest surprise of all came to admit that it is a common practice in the sector, as happens with Google, Twitter or LinkedIn.

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