PricewaterhouseCoopers cleared Facebook's privacy practices in leak period

Facebook has been under scrutiny from lawmakers across the world since disclosing that the personal information of 87 mn FB users wrongly ended up in the hands of Cambridge Analytica

Facebook’s privacy practices were cleared by auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers in an assessment completed last year of the period in which data analytics consultancy Cambridge Analytica gained access to the personal data of millions of Facebook users. 

Facebook had established and implemented a comprehensive privacy program and its privacy controls were operating with sufficient effectiveness to provide reasonable assurance to protect the privacy of covered information, PwC said in a report submitted to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) dated December 2017 on the FTC website. 

The report was an assessment of the period from February 12, 2015 to February 11, 2017.