The boss of Italy’s biggest bank has ordered his staff to cut all the bank’s ties with Facebook in direct response to the social network’s behaviour revealed in the Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal. “Facebook is not acting in an ethical way,” Jean Pierre Mustier, chief executive of UniCredit, said on Tuesday. “We will not use it until it has proper ethical behaviour.” Mustier said that he had ordered the bank – which has more than 26 million customers – to terminate all advertising and partnerships with Facebook at the end of March. The move comes days after the Observer and the Guardian revealed that millions of mostly US Facebook users’ data had been harvested for use in political advertising in the run up to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election victory.
ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Guardian