Tag: Cambridge Analytica
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Compromised election: Buhari’s Govt. reacts to Cambridge Analytica revelations
After TheNewsGuru reported the President Muhammadu Buhari administration silence to Cambridge Analytica revelations is alarming, the government has stood up to the occasion requesting the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) to address allegations it actually hired the data analytics firm or not. TheNewsGuru reports data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica and its parent company, SCL Elections, confirmed…
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Cambridge Analytica accepts probe into data practices
Data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica has accepted a probe into how it handled about 50 million data of users on Facebook it obtained from Cambridge University Professor Aleksandr Kogan. Kogan reportedly harvested the Facebook data using a personality quiz app and shared it Cambridge Analytica. Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg had since addressed…
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Data scandal: German justice minister asks to speak with Facebook execs
German Justice Minister Katarina Barley has asked to speak to Facebook executives to find out whether the social media site’s 30 million users in the country were affected by what she described as “scandal” involving personal data. Barley said it must be possible for users of social media sites to specify whether they are happy…
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Israeli govt. probes into Facebook user’s data scandal
Israel’s Justice Ministry said on Thursday that an investigation has been launched into Facebook’s leak of personal information of Israeli users. The ministry said the investigation was opened following media reports that data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica had harvested information about Facebook users. “The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority informed Facebook today, that it had opened an…
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Facebook CEO opens up on Cambridge Analytica
Facebook founder and chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg, has shared an update on the Cambridge Analytica situation in which the social media giant was unable to protect users’ data of about 50 million people on the platform. Facebook had placed a ban on Cambridge Analytica after allegations emerged that a Cambridge University researcher named Aleksandr…
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Cambridge Analytica confirms rendering Jonathan services against Buhari – Report
Under-fire data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, has confirmed it had been hired by a Nigerian billionaire, who supported ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, to execute a campaign against Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 general elections. According to a report, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, SCL Elections, made the confirmation it was hired in the wake of…
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Facebook value continues decline as Nix gets suspension, Kogan a scapegoat
Facebook has continued to experience a fall in market value even when data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, accused of breaching privacy policies of users’ data on Facebook has suspended its chief executive, Alexander Nix. Cambridge Analytica suspended after Nix after he confessed in a leaked video that his company had played a decisive role in…
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Facebook loses $40 billion market value
Facebook shares closed down nearly 7.0 per cent on Monday, wiping nearly $40 billion off its market value as investors worried that new legislation could damage the company’s advertising business. TheNewsGuru reports Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been under pressure after privacy regulators launched a probe into how the social media giant handles users’ data…