In this way, 50 million Facebook profiles were mined for data. Kogan then shared this with Cambridge Analytica, which allowed the firm to build a software solution to help influence choices in elections,according to whistleblower Christopher Wylie, who revealed the alleged practices to both new...
Cambridge Analytica has been at the heart of the data scandal that has rocked Facebook, the world's largest social network, and led to calls for more regulation of user data. Facebook banned the political data analysis firm in March, and said it believes data fromup to 87 million peoplewa...
In response to the story, Facebook said that when it learned about the data leaks, it sought to ban Kogan’s app and legally pressured both Kogan and Cambridge Analytica to remove all of the data they had improperly acquired. The social media giant claims both Kogan and the London-based e...
"Facebook had known about this security breach for two years, but did little or nothing to protect its users," says Price's complaint. This is the first lawsuit brought by a Facebook user over the Cambridge Analytica news, but others are likely to follow. The lawsuit is part of a gro...
Despite being in the middle of dealing with the fallout of the Cambridge Analytica revelations,rnFacebook has made some significant changes to its privacy policy. First, it has removed 1.5 billionrnusers from the jurisdiction of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)rn...
Meta公司近日同意支付7.25亿美元和解金,以解决一起关于“剑桥分析丑闻”的集体诉讼。该公司计划于2023年4月启动赔付程序,2007年5月24日至2022年12月22日期间在美国注册的Facebook用户都有资格获得赔偿。 据Meta公司律师莱斯利·韦弗(Lesley Weaver)在法庭上公开的信息,负责审查索赔的员工目前已经收到了2800万用户的申请...
After finding itself in the middle of Facebook’s privacy scandal,Cambridge Analyticaannounced it will shut down. Cambridge Analytica’s affiliate, U.K.-based SCL Elections announced that it, too, will cease operations and that both companies will begin the insolvency process. ...
The scandal that has erupted around Cambridge Analytica's alleged harvesting of 50m Facebook profiles assembled from data provided by a UK-based academic and his company is a worrying development for legitimate researchers.
Zuckerberg apologized for the scandal in an online blog post, explaining the company had already taken steps to address “this important issue.”“This was a breach of trust between [Aleksander] Kogan, Cambridge Analytica and Facebook,” he wrote. “But it was also a breach of trust betw...
Not only Cambridge Analytica's quiz app, there are other thousands of other apps that you might have encountered on your Facebook timeline—such as "how you'll look in your 80s," "which celebrity you look like," "who'll be your Valentine this year"—that work on the same model. ...