It’s 2028 and no one remembers the uproar surrounding Cambridge Analytica (CA) and Facebook anymore. The latter’s market cap returned to its prior level after a short time. A lot of people made enormous sums of money back in 2018 buying Facebook stock when the perceived data breach caused the price to drop. Both Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg have a lot more gray hair today than they did ten years ago.
The ICO’s forensic data investigation eventually cleared both Facebook’s and CA’s reputations. Unfortunately, the cost from all of the law suits and the irreparable damage to its brand were too much for the small data analytics company and it had to shut down.
