Cambridge Analytica
Twitter also sold data access to Cambridge Analytica-linked researcher
Since it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed the personal data of millions of Facebook users, one question has lingered in the minds of the public: What other data…
Facebook drops fundraising fees for personal causes
Despite Facebook being under fire for everything pertaining to Cambridge Analytica, the company still hopes to be able to do some good. Today, Facebook is dropping its platform fees pertaining…
Facebook’s CTO Mike Schroepfer has just undergone almost five hours of often forensic and frequently awkward questions from members of a UK parliament committee that’s investigating online disinformation, and whose members…
In the age of Cambridge Analytica what are reasonable data norms?
Things really escalated quickly in this month’s Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal. While it’s usually best to just sit back with a bucket of popcorn and watch reality business drama unfold, I…
Facebook and the perils of a personalized choice architecture
The recent Facebook-Cambridge Analytica chaos has ignited a fire of awareness, bringing the risks of today’s data surveillance culture to the forefront of mainstream conversations.
Kogan: ‘I don’t think Facebook has a developer policy that is valid’
A Cambridge University academic at the center of a data misuse scandal involving Facebook user data and political ad targeting faced questions from the UK parliament this morning. Although the…
In the most 2018 thing of the year so far, Reuters and The New York Times are both reporting that Cambridge Analytica was talking to crytpocurrency experts in preparation for…
Uber has denied that its sitting CTO, Thuan Pham, met with Cambridge Analytica — the controversial political consultancy at the center of a Facebook user data misuse scandal. But it…
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Data experts on Facebook’s GDPR changes: Expect lawsuits
Make no mistake: Fresh battle lines are being drawn in the clash between data-mining tech giants and Internet users over people’s right to control their personal information and protect their privacy. An update to European Union data protection rules next month — called the General Data Protection Regulation — is the catalyst for this next chapter…
Cambridge Analytica’s ex-CEO backs out of giving evidence to UK parliament
Alexander Nix, the former CEO of the political consultancy firm at the center of a storm about mishandled Facebook users data, has backed out of re-appearing in front of the…
CA also used ‘sex compass’ and other quiz apps for sucking Facebook data, says former employee
Brittney Kaiser, a former employee for Cambridge Analytica — who left the company in January and is today giving evidence in front of a UK parliament committee that’s investigating online…
Facebook points finger at Google and Twitter for data collection
“Other companies suck in your data too,” Facebook explained in many, many words today with a blog post detailing how it gathers information about you from around the web. Facebook…
How Facebook gives an asymmetric advantage to negative messaging
Few Facebook critics are as credible as Roger McNamee, the managing partner at Elevation Partners. As an early investor in Facebook, McNamee was not only a mentor to Mark Zuckerberg but also introduced him to…
Users and advertisers are mostly unfazed by Facebook scandal
Facebook’s downfall has, it seems, been greatly exaggerated — at least according to Facebook. Even with the Cambridge Analytica fallout and subsequent #DeleteFacebook campaigns, the site appears to be largely…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to the House yesterday was a mostly bland performance, punctuated by frequent claims not to know or remember certain fundamental aspects of his own business. But…
Welp. While Mark Zuckerberg gets the grilling of a lifetime on Capitol Hill, the firm at the center of all of this is losing its top (if temporary) executive. As…
Zuckerberg makes case for privacy regs with teeth — by failing to remember non-existent FTC fine
Chalk up a sharp political point in support for privacy legislation with actual teeth: In today’s testimony in front of the House Energy & Commerce committee, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked…
Mark Zuckerberg today begins his second day of testimony. The Facebook CEO spent more than five hours yesterday answering the questions of U.S. Senators, and will now testify before the…
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Zuckerberg’s boring testimony is a big win for Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg ran his apology scripts, trotted out his lists of policy fixes and generally dulled the Senate into submission. And that constitutes success for Facebook. Zuckerberg testified before the joint Senate judiciary and commerce committee today, capitalizing on the lack of knowledge of the politicians and their surface-level questions. Half the time, Zuckerberg got…
Cambridge Analytica may have accessed some Facebook users’ messages
The app permissions that led to 87 million Facebook users’ data being harvested and sold to Cambridge Analytica may have also allowed access to those users’ inboxes, the company confirmed…
While many of us in the tech world are familiar with Facebook’s business model, there is a common misconception among people that Facebook collects information about you and then sells…
Facebook’s founder said last month that the company is open to being regulated. But today he got asked by the US senate what sort of legislative changes he would (and…
Zuckerberg admits it was a mistake not to ban Cambridge Analytica’s ads
Facebook didn’t ban Cambridge Analytica when it found out in 2015 that it had received user data from Dr. Aleksandr Kogan, and Zuckerberg called that a mistake during his testimony…
Mark Zuckerberg: ‘There will always be a version of Facebook that is free’
Today during Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before the Senate, the Facebook CEO reiterated that “there will always be a version of Facebook that is free.” In the midst of the Cambridge…
Zuckerberg confirms Facebook has been interviewed by Mueller’s special counsel
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the 2016 election interference has interviewed at least one employee of Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed today during his testimony before the Senate. Zuckerberg…
Senate will ‘haul in’ Cambridge Analytica for future hearing
In his opening statement in today’s Senate hearing with Mark Zuckerberg, Senator Thune (R-SD) noted that Cambridge Analytica, the company most associated with the ongoing privacy debacle, will be examined…
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will be questioned by US lawmakers today about the “use and abuse of data” — following weeks of breaking news about a data misuse scandal dating…
Fed up with Facebook, activists find new ways to defend their movements
In the wake of revelations that the personal information of as many as 87 million Facebook users was used by data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica in 2016 for political purposes,…
Go find out now if Cambridge Analytica had access to your data
Facebook promised it would alert users yesterday who were impacted by the whole Cambridge Analytica mess. No doubt you’ve been waiting on that information since the whole thing crossed your radar.…
Today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will begin two of the most publicly scrutinized days of his career. This afternoon, members of the Senate will hear from Zuckerberg on data use,…
