The scandal has attracted broad public interest because Cambridge did millions of dollars in political consulting work for Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Some reports have portrayed the firm as the masterminds behind Trump's election victory—and the stolen Facebook data as a key part of Tru...
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers appear set this month to demand audits of Facebook by Europe's cybersecurity agency and data protection authority in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. A draft resolution submitted Thursday to the EU Parliament's civil liberties and justice ...
In wake of the scandal, it's important to know which apps have access to your personal data and make the appropriate privacy changes to your account. Facebook has rolled out new settings to appease users after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Here's what you need to know. Facebook: Adjust...
So far, the company seems to be just experimenting with this approach. During and interview withThe New York Timesabout the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Zuckerberg revealed that for the special election in Alabama last year, the company “deployed some new AI tools to identify fake accounts and ...
As the post-Cambridge Analytica scandal fallout continues to unfold, some Facebook users are downloading their data from the social media platform and uncovering a surprise: Detailed phone records, including dates, times, call lengths, call recipients, and phone numbers. SEE ALSO: To understand Fac...
lieutenants that failed to take action for over a year after finding out that one—but likely more—of those app developers misused that valuable data. just as the culture that created the cambridge analytica scandal took years to develop, zuckerberg acknowledged it will take at least as ...
Zuckerberg explained that Aleksandr Kogan, the researcher at the center of the scandal, had accessed data of 300,000 Facebook users — and millions more of their friends — when he created a personality quiz back in 2013, something apps were prevented from doing starting with an update the fo...
The Cambridge Analytica scandal would kick off Facebook’s largest publicity crisis ever. It compounded fears that the algorithms that determine what people see on the platform were amplifying fake news and hate speech, and that Russian hackers had weaponized them to try to sway the election in ...
lieutenants that failed to take action for over a year after finding out that one—but likely more—of those app developers misused that valuable data. just as the culture that created the cambridge analytica scandal took years to develop, zuckerberg acknowledged it will take at least as long ...
"For example, there are special sensitivities about howgovernment agenciescan use online public data, even though that same data is freely accessible by others," he wrote. Facebook acknowledged this month that it was facing multiple inquiries from US and British regulators about a scandal involving...