Israel: research into Facebook after privacy

jerusalem - The Israeli authorities have started an investigation into Facebook. The Ministry of Justice wants to find out whether privacy legislation has been violated.

The investigation must show whether 'personal data of Israeli citizens have been used illegally in a way that infringes their right to privacy,' the ministry reports in a statement.

The announcement follows the revelations about the Cambridge Analytica data company. That would have used personal information from millions of Facebook users without permission to make voter profiles in the US. Thus, the voting behavior of people could be influenced.