Facebook has recently been under fire after revealing around 87 million of its users’ privacy has been breached.

“Facebook as a company really should be more careful about who they let access the data in their system,” senior computer science major Steven Burrell said.

Facebook launched in 2004 and took the social media world by storm.

According to statista.com, Facebook is one of the top social networks and is home to over 2 billion monthly active users as of December 2017.

“I only use Facebook for class. It’s a necessity for my group projects,” Burrell said.

Facebook began notifying users when they realized the data analysis firm, Cambridge Analytica, used data collected by millions of Facebook users without their consent.

This has caused great concern because Cambridge Analytica was hired by President Trump during his 2016 election campaign.

The collected data tracked users’ personality traits, so that advertisers could create digital ads targeting users specifically.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress and revealed that Facebook had been in communication with special counsel Robert Mueller’s office pertaining to the Russian meddling in the US election.

Republican senator, Ted Cruz questioned Zuckerberg about Facebook’s political bias.

Zuckerberg told Sen. Cruz that the company doesn’t regulate content and ads based on political bias.

Last September, Facebook turned over ads to the Senate and House intelligence committees that they sold to Russia.

The company was accused of sharing and promoting Russian propaganda through political advertising. Zuckerberg said one of his greatest regrets in running Facebook is that they were slow in identifying Russian interference in the 2016 election.

“It’s a little creepy knowing that we’re being fed specific information. Unfortunately, we believe what we read and it feels like we’re being controlled in a weird way. I try to be a stickler in fact checking things, but sometimes I don’t,” senior kinesiology major Eryn Robertson said.

One of the biggest data breaches included Yahoo in 2013. It was originally estimated that 500 million users were affected. In 2017, Yahoo revealed that all three billion users had been compromised by hackers.

“I can understand people feeling violated, but if you have nothing to hide it shouldn’t matter,” sophomore business management major Denisha Peterson said.

Among the recent data breaches, Under Armour revealed their food and nutrition logging app, MyFitnessPal, suffered a data breach affecting 150 million accounts.

They became aware that during February an “unauthorized party acquired data associated with MyFitnessPal user accounts.”

The data breach included usernames, email addresses and passwords.

Payment methods weren’t affected because the information is collected and processed separately.

Since the data breach, Zuckerberg has issued an apology to users for not protecting their privacy and is willing to work with Congress to determine how to strengthen privacy standards.