Another scandal with Facebook: you could have sold data to another company

Facebook announced Friday the suspension of its link with Crimson Hexagon, a Cambridge-style badytics consulting firm, for the possible misuse of data from more than 2,000 million social network users.

He has contracts with several US government agencies and even a Russian non-profit organization linked to the Kremlin, reports the Wall Street Journal website.

In March 2018, Mark Zuckerberg saw himself in the eye of the storm. for the use that Cambridge Analytica had given to the public data of Facebook users, but there was no focus on Crimson Hexagon, which was already operating with the social network.

"We do not allow developers to build (public) surveillance tools using Facebook or Instagram, we take these allegations very seriously, and we suspend these applications while we investigate," said a spokesman. Facebook word to CNNMoney

n own companies like WhatsApp Crimson Hexagon "only collects public data available on social networks to which everyone can access" and does not joke with users' private information, explained Chris Bingham, director of technology of the company.