Investors, advertisers pressure Facebook over data (Update 3)
By Dustin Volz and Kate Holton Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s apology for how his company handled 50 million users’ data did little on...
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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...
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...
Cyta fined for allowing employee to leak personal data
State owned telecommunications authority (Cyta) was fined on Wednesday €10,000 for violating personal data, after an employee gave confidential data of over 200 customers to...
Cyta called to explain theft of personal data
The commissioner for personal data protection, Irini Loizidou, on Friday asked the telecommunications authority (Cyta) to explain the alleged leaking of personal details of its...
Woman arrested for trying to sell company data
Police on Thursday arrested a 36-year-old woman, a Limassol forex company employee, in connection with trying to sell client personal data to competitors. The case...
Supreme court hears personal data challenge
By Angelos Anastasiou THE Supreme Court yesterday heard a challenge of the law allowing police to retrieve personal telecommunications data in connection with criminal investigations,...
State on alert after hacking incident
By Peter Stevenson OFFICIALS at the Internal Audit Service (IAS) have been put on alert after reports emerged yesterday that hackers had managed to gain...
