Tag: Cambridge Analytica
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Facebook sues over sale of ‘fake engagement services’ to users
Facebook is suing a company and three individuals, based in New Zealand, over allegations they sold fake likes, views and followers to users of its photo-sharing platform Instagram, it said on Friday. The company said it suspended accounts associated with the defendants, who had been formally warned they were in violation of the company’s terms…
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Facebook broke rules, should be regulated, say UK lawmakers
Facebook intentionally breached data privacy and competition law and should, along with other big tech companies, be subjected to a new regulator to protect democracy and citizens’ rights, British lawmakers said on Monday. In a damning report that singled out Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for what it said was a failure of leadership and personal…
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Facebook tightens paid ads rules ahead of EU elections
Facebook on Monday said it will beef up its rules and safeguards around political adverts to prevent foreign interference in elections, including those in Europe this year. The world’s largest social network has been under pressure from regulators and the public after 2018’s revelation that British consultancy Cambridge Analytica had improperly acquired data on millions…
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Facebook fighting hard to earn back trust
Facebook’s operations chief Sheryl Sandberg said on Wednesday that the world’s largest social network needed to win back public trust after facing scandals for violating its users’ privacy. The social media platform is investing billions of dollars a year to improve the security of its network, Sandberg said at the World Economic Forum in Davos,…
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Facebook sued by Washington, D.C. over data breach accusations
The attorney general for Washington, D.C. said on Wednesday the U.S. capital city had sued Facebook Inc for allegedly misleading users about how it safeguarded their personal data, in the latest fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The world’s largest social media company has drawn global scrutiny since disclosing earlier this year that a third-party…
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2019: Who is the Nigerian billionaire behind the 2015 general elections?
As events unfold for 2019 general elections to hold in Nigeria, it becomes imperative to consider certain dealings that came to play in events leading up to the 2015 general elections in the country. In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, confessional statements emerged of how a Nigerian billionaire supported ex-President Goodluck Jonathan…
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Cambridge Analytica whistleblower calls for social media regulation
The whistleblower, who claimed data consultancy Cambridge Analytica played a role in obtaining data from Facebook users, on Tuesday called for government regulation of social media and online advertising. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports Christopher Wylie, a former director of research at the now-defunct data consultancy firm, made the call at the Web Summit, Europe’s biggest tech…
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Facebook suspends hundreds of apps over privacy concerns
Following Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook on Wednesday banned myPersonality app for failing to agree to request to audit after investigations revealed the app shared information with researchers as well as companies with only limited protections in place. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports myPersonality app that was mainly active prior to 2012 was banned from the social…
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India asks telecoms to block Facebook, WhatsApp in case of misuse
India has asked its telecom operators to find ways of blocking applications such as Facebook and messaging app WhatsApp in the case of misuse, according to a document seen by Reuters on Tuesday. India has in recent months intensified efforts to crack down on mass message forwards after it found that people were using social…
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Privacy breaches: IMF to press lawsuit against Facebook
Litigation funder IMF Bentham Ltd. is preparing to potentially sue social media giant Facebook Inc. in Australia over its sharing of users’ data with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. The world’s largest social network said in April that data of up to 87 million people ended up in the hands of Cambridge Analytica, which was employed…