we're going to keep a much closer eye on companies like facebook and punish data protection violations quickly severely and seriously. the scandal came to light after revelations about the activities of political consulting firm cambridge analytic. the company reportedly misused the data of fifteen million facebook users to target selection adds to influence the outcome of the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election a probe by the federal trade commission could subject facebook to major penalties. police in spain have a rest of the alleged mastermind of an international cyber crime gang it was the culmination of a three year long investigation of the gang is believed to have stolen as much as a billion euros and operated in some forty countries it's techniques included using