A B.C. whistleblower is at the centre of explosive allegations raising concerns in Canada and Europe about the use of personal information harvested from Facebook.
Christopher Wylie has said in a series of interviews that he helped found a data analytics company that used the data of 50 million Facebook customers without permission to help the Trump campaign target voters during the 2016 U.S. election.
Canadian privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien says his office will contact Facebook to find out whether the personal information of Canadians was affected.
Lawmakers in the United Kingdom have already called on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify before a parliamentary committee about this case, and the head of the European Union's parliament says the bloc will investigate Facebook over the use of its data by Cambridge Analytica.
