Tag: Data Privacy
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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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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…
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Facebook “show of remorse” not enough in data scandal: German official
Johannes Caspar, the German government official responsible for policing the activities of Facebook, on Wednesday criticised the U.S. social media company’s reaction in the ongoing Cambridge Analytica data scandal. “In so far it must be feared that this scandal will not result in any concrete consequences beyond Facebook’s apology statement and show of remorse,” Caspar…
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Whistle-blower reveals Israeli hackers behind Buhari’s data compromise
Whistle-blower and former employee of Cambridge Analytica, Christopher Wylie, has finally revealed the Israeli hackers that were engaged to hack into Muhammadu Buhari medical records and private emails. Wylie made the revelation when he appeared before British Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee. He said Cambridge Analytica’s parent company SCL worked with Israeli spy…
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Facebook’s response to data scandal has ‘diminished’ trust — EU
Facebook must do more to address allegations of large-scale data mining, the EU has said, warning that the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal threatens democracy and has diminished trust in the social media giant. Facebook has come under fire after a co-founder of data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica told an undercover reporter that information from about…
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Facebook shares dip as U.S. regulator announces privacy probe
Facebook Inc shares fell to 6.5 per cent on Monday after United States-consumer-protection-regulator said it was investigating how the social-network allowed data of 50 million users to get into the hands of a political-consultancy. Scrutiny by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which generally confirms the existence of an investigation only in cases of significant public…