Facebook Confirms Data-Sharing Agreements With Chinese Firms

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Facebook has confirmed it has a data-sharing partnership with several Chinese firms. Ailidh Callander of the campaign group Privacy International explains why the revelation causes alarm for some. Also in the programme, it has been alleged that Alexander Nix of the data firm Cambridge Analytica withdrew more than $8m from the firm as news of a data leak to the firm from Facebook emerged. Ailya Ram from the Financial Times explains her reporting. We travel to Zimbabwe to examine a more open approach towards foreign investors in the country. Former executive director of Croatia's most successful football club Dinamo Zagreb, Zdravko Mamic, has been handed a six year jail term for corruption. Aleksandar Holiga is a Croatian football journalist and tells us what Mr Mamic had done wrong. Plus we find out why Microsoft has sunk a small data centre in the sea off the coast of northern Scotland. (Picture: A Facebook logo on a phone. Picture credit: Getty Images.)