Tag: Cambridge Analytica

• 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.

• 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.”

• 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

• Monday, February 18th 2019 - 10:01 UTC

  MPs demand tough urgent action against Facebook to combat spread of fake news

  

  Facebook needs for stricter regulation, with tough and urgent action necessary to end the spread of disinformation on its platform, MPs have said. A House of Commons committee has concluded that the firm's founder Mark Zuckerberg failed to show “leadership or personal responsibility” over fake news.

• 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.

• Monday, December 17th 2018 - 08:34 UTC

  Bug in Facebook exposed photos from 6.8 million users

  

  Facebook has revealed that a software bug exposed the photos of up to 6.8 million users, including pictures they had not posted. It made the announcement a day after hosting its pop-up privacy experience “It's Your Facebook” in New York's Bryant Park.

• Monday, November 26th 2018 - 07:13 UTC

  Facebook documents related to privacy breaches, seized by the UK Parliament

  

  The UK Parliament used a rarely-used procedure to compel an app developer to seize a number of internal Facebook documents related to the company’s decision-making process preceding the Cambridge Analytica scandal, reports The Guardian. The documents reportedly contain “significant revelations” about the decisions that set the stage for the Cambridge Analytica case.

• Thursday, November 1st 2018 - 08:28 UTC

  UK and Canadian lawmakers want to question Facebook's Zuckerberg on “fake news” and disinformation

  

  British and Canadian politicians have joined forces in calling on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to explain “failures of process” regarding the spread of propaganda on the social network. Leading MPs from both parliaments co-signed a letter to Mr Zuckerberg announcing an “international grand committee” on “disinformation and fake news” to be held at the end of November.