The report of Cambridge Analytica meddling in the 2015 presidential election in Nigeria lays bare the need to protect citizens’ internet data from abuse, especially as 2019 elections beckons. What happened exactly? In 2010, Facebook launched its Open Graph API which allows outside app developers
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