Tag: Damian Collins

• 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.

• Monday, July 30th 2018 - 06:27 UTC

  UK Commons blasts tech giants for fake news: they act irresponsibly and must be regulated and accountable

  

  Fake news has plunged democracy into crisis with voters being systematically manipulated by campaigns of hate and disinformation, a Commons committee has warned. In a blistering attack, MPs rounded on tech giants such as Facebook, Twitter and Google, for acting “irresponsibly” over data collection and called for new laws to make them accountable for the content on their sites.

• Wednesday, July 11th 2018 - 08:25 UTC

  Facebook fined £500,000 in UK for failing to safeguard users' data

  

  The chairman of the U.K. Parliament's media committee says the government office that investigated the Cambridge Analytica scandal has fined Facebook £500,000 for failing to safeguard users' data.

• Saturday, April 28th 2018 - 11:17 UTC

  MPs want to speak to Facebook's Zuckerberg following frustrating questioning of his chief technology officer

  

  UK Members of Parliament have urged Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to speak to them after evidence given by his chief technology officer was deemed unsatisfactory. A parliamentary committee said Mr Schroepfer had failed to fully answer 40 points put to him as part of an inquiry into fake news.