Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has taken out full-page adverts in several UK and US Sunday newspapers to apologise for the firm's recent data privacy scandal.
✰ scandal ⇨ n.
(an action or event that causes) a public feeling of shock and strong moral disapproval
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v.+n.
avoid → Jacobi wanted to avoid a public scandal.
He said Facebook could have done more to stop millions of users having their data exploited by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica in 2014.
✰ exploit ⇨ v.
to use something in a way that helps you
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v.+n.
bug → They can also be realised by exploiting software bugs.
weakness → She exploited Eloida's weakness and used her.
adv.+v.
successfully → At Pwn2Own, Chrome was successfully exploited for the first time.
"This was a breach of trust, and I am sorry," the back-page ads state.
✰ breach⇨ n.
an act of breaking a law, promise, agreement, or relationship
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n.+v.
go → The world is not perfect , and breaches are still going to happen.
v.+n.
seal → Together they sealed the breach.
Christopher Wylie, says the data of about 50 million people was harvested for Cambridge Analytica before the rules on user consent were tightened up.
✰ harvest⇨ v.
to pick and collect crops, or to collect plants, animals, or fish to eat
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honey → I've been harvesting wild honey.
But Dr Kogan has said he was told by Cambridge Analytica everything they had done was legal, and that he was being made a "scapegoat" by the firm and Facebook.
✰ scapegoat⇨ n.
a person who is blamed for something that someone else has done
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v.+n.
become → I could easily have become a scapegoat.
find → To cover his own tracks, he tells Riley to find a scapegoat, and Riley immediately names Ray.
adj.+n.
convenient → That is a convenient scapegoat, brilliant if it were true.
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