Tag: Big Data

• Tuesday, February 4th 2020 - 07:14 UTC

  Warnings of UK data privacy legislation vacuum, following post Brexit 2021

  

  British people’s data privacy will be “hanging in the balance” after Brexit, former Cambridge Analytica staffer-turned-whistleblower Brittany Kaiser warned as the country leaves the European Union on Friday.

• Tuesday, December 31st 2019 - 12:20 UTC

  Brazil fines Facebook for breach of privacy involving some 443.000 users

  

  Brazil's government imposed a 6.6 million real (US$ 1.5 million) fine on Facebook and its local unit for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The fine is tied to Facebook's unlawful sharing of data from its users in Brazil, Brazil's justice ministry said in a statement posted on its website Monday.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 22:37 UTC

  Airbnb is an “information society service” rather than a property broker, rules Europe's top court

  

  The accommodation-booking service Airbnb does not need an estate agent's license to operate in France, Europe's top court has ruled. The French tourism association had complained that Airbnb did not comply with French property laws.

• Friday, November 22nd 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Google bans political advisors' microtargeting, but decision could help incumbents and punish rookies

  

  Google's tightening of its political ad policy could help reduce the spread of misinformation on election campaigns, but at a cost for lesser-known candidates. The move by Google placing restrictions on how advertisers can target specific groups of voters also adds to the pressure on Facebook to modify its hands-off policy on political ads.

• Tuesday, September 10th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Facebook faces major lawsuit for allowing third parties access to users private data

  

  A US federal judge on Monday ordered Facebook Inc to face most of a nationwide lawsuit seeking damages for letting third parties such as Cambridge Analytica access users' private data, calling the social media company's views on privacy “so wrong.”

• Wednesday, July 24th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  US government and Facebook settlement on mishandling users privacy, plus a fine, to be announced

  

  The Federal Trade Commission is set to announce this Wednesday that Facebook has agreed to a sweeping settlement of significant allegations it mishandled user privacy and pay US$5 billion, people briefed on the matter have said.

• Thursday, April 25th 2019 - 08:59 UTC

  Facebook profits and users rising, but company will set aside US$ 3bn for US FTC investigation into privacy practices

  

  Facebook has said it will set aside US$ 3bn to cover the potential costs of an investigation by US authorities into its privacy practices. While it has provided for a heavy toll from the investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission, the final cost could be US$ 5bn, it said.

• Tuesday, March 12th 2019 - 08:58 UTC

  Internet inventor says the web is “plunging downwards to a dysfunctional future”

  

  Global action is required to tackle the web's “downward plunge to a dysfunctional future”, its inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has told the BBC. He made the comments in an exclusive interview to mark 30 years since he submitted his proposal for the web. Sir Tim said people had realized how their data could be “manipulated” after the Cambridge Analytica scandal

• Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  French data regulator fines Google 50 million Euros for “lack of transparency”

  

  Google has been fined 50 million Euros by the French data regulator CNIL, for a breach of the EU's data protection rules. CNIL said it had levied the record fine for “lack of transparency, inadequate information and lack of valid consent regarding ads personalisation”.

• Thursday, December 20th 2018 - 08:51 UTC

  United States prosecutor suing Facebook for the Cambridge Analytical scandal

  

  Washington DC's top prosecutor is suing Facebook in the first significant US move to punish the firm for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.