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A British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica illicitly harvested the personal data of millions of Facebook users without their consent to run political campaigns. The scandal came into light after a former employee turned into a whistleblower. This led to several countries re-looking at their data privacy laws and tightening their regulation on tech companies' usage of personal data.