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Police investigate applications connected to Facebook
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Insp. Gen. Ari Dono Sukmanto. (Courtesy/Tribunnews.com)
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he National Police are looking deeper into applications connected to social media giant Facebook to investigate if there was any misuse of Indonesian users personal data.
"We want to know what Facebook did with the data and investigate what kind of applications users share their personal information on," the National Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) head Comr. Gen. Ari Dono Sumanto said on Thursday as quoted by Antara News Agency.
The data collected has allegedly been misused by third parties. However, the police have not yet received reports of stolen data from users.
On Wednesday, the police's cybercrime division questioned Facebook Indonesia's public policy head Ruben Hattari on the alleged data breach, which saw the personal information of up to 1 million users in Indonesia being improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy that was involved in the United States President Donald Trump’s election campaign.
Ruben said Facebook was undergoing an audit, the result of which would be revealed to the police, the Communications and Information Ministry and the House of Representatives.
"We are still doing the audit, we will publish [the outcome] when it's finished, but I can't promise a certain date," Ruben said.
Indonesia is an important market for Facebook as it has 115 million people using the social media platform. (foy/swd)
