Cambridge Analytica ‘received researcher data’ in Facebook storm
Cambridge Analytica‘s former chief denied deliberately misleading British lawmakers, even as he admitted that his firm did receive data from the researcher at the centre of...
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Facebook to put 1.5 billion users out of reach of EU privacy law
If a new European law restricting what companies can do with people’s online data went into effect tomorrow, almost 1.9 billion Facebook Inc users around...
EU tells Facebook: Sorry simply is not enough
European Union privacy watchdogs will look deeper into the harvesting of personal data from social networks for economic or political purposes following the scandal engulfing...
Facebook CEO says his own data was shared by Cambridge Analytica
Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday told lawmakers he was among the 87 million Facebook Inc users whose data was improperly shared with a political consultancy, but...
Facebook severs ties with data brokers in blow to targeted ads
Facebook Inc said yesterday Wednesday it would end its partnerships with several large data brokers who help advertisers target people on the social network, a...
Facebook data scandal widens as Canadian company accused of helping target U.S. voters
A scandal engulfing Facebook over the use of its data by political consultants widened when a whistleblower said Canadian company AggregateIQ had developed a programme...
Whistleblower questions Brexit result, says campaigners broke law
A whistleblower at the heart of a Facebook data scandal on Monday questioned the result of Britain’s 2016 Brexit referendum as his lawyers presented evidence...
Zuckerberg says Facebook ‘made mistakes’ on Cambridge Analytica
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday that the social media company made mistakes that allowed data about users to end up with the...
Cambridge Analytica CEO claims influence on U.S. election, Facebook questioned
The suspended chief executive of Cambridge Analytica said in a secretly recorded video broadcast on Tuesday that his UK-based political consultancy’s online campaign played a...
UK investigates Facebook, to raid Cambridge Analytica
Britain is investigating whether Facebook did enough to protect data after a whistleblower said a London-based political consultancy hired by Donald Trump improperly accessed information...
Facebook under pressure as U.S., EU urge probes of data practices
British privacy regulators are seeking a warrant to search the offices of the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica late Monday following reports that the company may...
Trump consultants harvested data from 50 million Facebook users -reports
Data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica harvested private information from more than 50 million Facebook users in developing techniques to support President Donald Trump’s 2016 election...