Millions of Europeans affected by Facebook data scandal, EU reveals

The European Union says that Facebook has told it that up to 2.7 million people in the 28-nation bloc may have been victim of improper data sharing involving political data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica. Now the EU says that it will ask the data protection authorities in its various countries to work together and investigate the site for the abuse of data. As the data sharing scandal has spread, estimates of the number of people caught up in it have increased. This week, Facebook said that at least 87 million people across the world had been affected by it. Many of those people are outside of Europe.