Massachusetts says to probe Facebook, Cambridge Analytica
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Massachusetts attorney general said on Saturday her office was launching an investigation after reports that Cambridge Analytica had harvested private information from more than 50 million Facebook users in developing techniques to support President Donald Trump's … Read More
The Observer view on how Facebook’s destructive ethos imperils democracy
The revelations in our lead story today are shocking not just because they reveal the extent to which Facebook's advertising system was exploited for political purposes in the 2016 election, but also because they demonstrate the company's inability to comprehend the responsibilities that accompany its … Read More
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower: ‘We spent $1m harvesting millions of Facebook profiles’ – video
Christopher Wylie, who worked for data firm Cambridge Analytica, reveals how personal information was taken without authorisation in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters in order to target them with personalised political advertisements. At the time the company was … Read More
Whistleblower confirms Cambridge Analytica compromised more than 50 million Facebook profiles
Now we know why Facebook gave Cambridge Analytica the boot on Friday. What's less clear is why it took so long. The social media company was aware as far back as late 2015 that, starting in early 2014, the Trump-linked U.K data firm had secretly harvested profile data belonging to …
Cambridge Analytica Took 50M Facebook Users’ Data—And Both Companies Owe Answers
Cambridge Analytica, a data analysis firm that worked on President Trump's 2016 campaign, and its related company, Strategic Communications Laboratories, pilfered data on 50 million Facebook users and secretly kept it, according to two reports in The New York Times and The Guardian. Read More
Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach
The data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump's election team and the winning Brexit campaign harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters, in the tech giant's biggest ever data breach, and used them to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box. …
Facebook vastly downplayed scope of data leak involving info on more than 50 million users
Late last night, Facebook released a statement announcing that it was suspending data analytics firm Cambridge Analytics, sternly describing how the firm had improperly obtained personal data from 270,000 people who had downloaded a personality prediction app. The implication was that the social … Read More
How Cambridge Analytica turned Facebook ‘likes’ into a lucrative political tool
The algorithm at the heart of the Facebook data breach sounds almost too dystopian to be real. It trawls through the most apparently trivial, throwaway postings –the “likes” users dole out as they browse the site – to gather sensitive personal information about sexual orientation, race, gender, even … Read More
Facebook Suspends Cambridge Analytica for Failing to Delete User Data
Facebook said late Friday that it been given information that Cambridge Analytica, along with two individuals who don't work there, improperly kept Facebook user data for years despite telling the social network that it had destroyed those records. Facebook didn't say how Cambridge Analytica used that … Read More
Facebook Cuts Ties with Cambridge Analytica Over Data Privacy
Facebook Inc. on Friday said it was suspending political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked for President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, after finding data privacy policies had been violated. Facebook said in a statement that it suspended Cambridge Analytica and its parent … Read More