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We talked to the professor who fought Cambridge Analytica to get his data...
A new Netflix original documentary, "The Great Hack," provides an inside look into the Cambridge Analytica scandal as it unfolds, with exclusive interviews from whistleblowers and journalists. The film...
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Facebook understood how dangerous the Trump-linked data firm Cambridge...
In early 2018, Facebook and a political data-analytics firm named Cambridge Analytica were implicated in a massive data breach.Personal data from over 87 million Facebook users had been improperly...
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An influential senator thinks Mark Zuckerberg should be 'held personally...
In a recent interview, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg should be prosecuted for allegedly lying to customers about his company's privacy practices.Wyden's spokesman...
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Facebook says it suspended 'tens of thousands' of apps for misusing data as...
Facebook announced on Friday it had suspended "tens of thousands" of apps for misusing customer data in the last year and a half.The company launched a full-fledged investigation into its apps and...
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The Cambridge Analytica whistleblower explains how the firm used Facebook...
The Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie revealed how the firm targeted users on Facebook with political advertising.Donald Trump and Ted Cruz's campaigns paid over $5 million each to...
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The career rise and life of Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's billionaire chief...
Sheryl Sandberg is the chief operating officer for Facebook, and is worth an estimated $1.7 billion.Sandberg has made headlines in her nearly 10 years at Facebook, from pioneering a controversial...
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Tech execs who lie about privacy violations could face 20 years behind bars...
A bill scheduled to be introduced on Thursday in the Senate proposes harsher punishments for tech companies and executives found responsible for privacy violations.Under the "Mind Your Own Business...
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Over 267 million Facebook users had their names, phone numbers, and profiles...
An online database exposed the names, Facebook IDs, and phone numbers of more than 267 million people, said Bob Diachenko, a data-security researcher, and Comparitech, a tech website.They said the...
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Misinformation, hacking, and imploding startups: 18 books to read in 2020...
Need a Christmas gift for the tech bro in your life? One of the books below might just make them think twice about their dreams of a futuristic utopia. The 18 books on this list include recent...
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Facebook exec Andrew Bosworth warns fellow employees against using their...
Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth has warned employees against trying to use the social network to prevent Trump's re-election.In an internal memo leaked to The New York Times, Bosworth said he...
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From wearing a tie every day to killing his own meat, Facebook CEO Mark...
Mark Zuckerberg made his first public New Year's resolution in 2009, when the economy tanked and Facebook wasn't profitable.Since then, he's tried all sorts of annual challenges, like learning a new...
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One of Facebook's top executives had an awkward public face-off with Amazon's...
Facebook's most senior lobbyist Nick Clegg attended the DLD conference in Munich on Monday, and took questions from the audience.Amazon CTO Werner Vogels was in the audience and stood up to ask Clegg...
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Facebook knows what you're doing on other sites and in real life. This tool...
Facebook just released a new tool that lets people see how it tracks their "off-Facebook activity."The social network tracks the websites, apps, and even real-life stores that users visit in order to...
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The Trump campaign reportedly hired a former employee of Cambridge Analytica...
A Politico report revealed that the Trump campaign recently hired a former employee from Cambridge Analytica.Cambridge Analytica is the data company that was accused of misusing data by Facebook for...
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Facebook is being sued by Australia for up to $529 billion over the Cambridge...
Facebook is being sued by Australia's privacy regulator over allegations it shared more than 300,000 users' data with Cambridge Analytica without their knowledge.Under Australian privacy law, each...
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Facebook has appointed the 'privacy committee' on its board designed to...
Facebook's board of directors has appointed the members of a new privacy committee.The company was required to create the committee as part of its settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over...
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Mark Zuckerberg slammed Apple's controversial App Store policies, the latest...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook have been adversaries for years.Their feud dates back to at least 2014, when Cook seemed to criticize Facebook's business model. Since then, they've...
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Trump's 2016 election targeted 3.5 million Black Americans with attack ads to...
Summary List PlacementA data leak from President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign shows that a disproportionate number of Black American potential voters — totalling 3.5 million — were put under a...
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Trump targeting Black voters in 2016 shows Facebook's microtargeting is a...
Summary List PlacementThe now-defunct Cambridge Analytica entered the news cycle once again on Monday, four years after its name became synonymous with the huge data scandal that changed the tech...
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Former Cambridge Analytica director Brittany Kaiser talks data rights...
Summary List PlacementBrittany Kaiser has been warning about online disinformation and polarization for years.In 2018, Kaiser, a former senior director at Cambridge Analytica, sounded the alarm on the...
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