Tag: Cambridge Analytica
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg faces EU Parliament grilling
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg will meet with leaders of the European Parliament on Tuesday. He meets them to answer questions about how the data of millions of Facebook users ended up in the hands of a political consultancy. The meeting comes three days before tough new European Union rules on data protection take effect.…
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Investment firms dump Facebook over data privacy
Several socially conscious investment firms are selling or rethinking their Facebook Inc holdings, unsatisfied by the company’s moves to strengthen personal data protection. They are not comfortable with online safety after scandals involving the improper sharing of users’ information. The retreat from the world’s largest social media network is one of the sharpest responses by…
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Data privacy scandal: Facebook suspends 200 apps
Facebook Inc has so far suspended around 200 apps in the first stage of its review into apps that had access to large quantities of user data, in a response to a scandal around political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. “The apps were suspended pending a thorough investigation into whether they misused any data,’’ Ime Archibong, Facebook’s…
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Cambridge Analytica: Facebook material might still be on SCL servers
An independent investigation into the Cambridge Analytica (CA) data privacy scandal has published report affirming that some traces of metadata from Facebook material (actual or historic) might still, in some form, be on SCL Elections servers. The report, however, revealed that data analytics firm, CA, an offspring of SCL Elections, had destroyed the Facebook users…
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Breaking: Cambridge Analytica shuts down operations
SCL Elections and its offspring data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytic (CA), have filed applications to commence insolvency proceedings in the United Kingdom that will also affect operations of certain SCL affiliates. TheNewsGuru reports the Company is immediately ceasing all operations and the boards have applied to appoint insolvency practitioners Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP to act…
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Cambridge Analytica: Finally investigation unravels data size mystery
The report of an independent investigation to unravel the mystery behind data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica (CA), harvesting over 87 million Facebook users data have been made public. The investigation reveals SCL Elections, parent company of CA entered into two contract agreements with Cambridge University Professor Aleksandr Kogan’s firm, Global Science Research (“GSR”) that developed…
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Breaking: Investigation confirms Israeli intelligence involvement in Nigeria’s election
An investigation into the Cambridge Analytica (CA) data privacy scandal has revealed key findings and confirmed Israeli intelligence involvement in the 2015 presidential elections in Nigeria. TheNewsGuru reports independent investigators, Julian Malins Q. C. and Linda Hudson, contracted to dig into the data privacy scandal, confirmed that Israeli intelligence worked to campaign for former President…
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WhatsApp raises minimum age in Europe to 16
WhatsApp, the popular messaging service owned by Facebook Inc, is raising its minimum age from 13 to 16 in Europe to help it comply with new data privacy rules coming into force in May. WhatsApp will ask European users to confirm they are at least 16 years old when they are prompted to agree new…
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Cambridge Analytica: Kogan defends involvement in Facebook data scandal
Developer of the ‘This Is Your Digital Life’ personality quiz app that was involved in the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, Professor Aleksandr Kogan, has opened up to defending his involvement. The Cambridge University professor developed the personality quiz app with which over 87 million users account on Facebook were compromised when he shared the…