Congress Is Unearthing Facebook’s Terrible Power
With this naive perception of Facebook's place in the world, Zuckerberg hit on the real reason that his testimony has garnered such a sprawling reaction. This week's hearings were never simply about the Cambridge Analytica leak, or Facebook's lax reaction to misuse of its users data. Zuckerberg's … Read More
Was Your Facebook Data Stolen by Cambridge Analytica? Here’s the Simple Way to Tell
This week, all 2.2 billion Facebook users received a notice entitled "Protecting Your Information." The specifics of that message indicate whether your data was stolen by Cambridge Analytica, the data firm responsible for helping tip the 2016 election in Trump's favor. Cambridge Analytica has a number … Read More
Facebook and Google need ad-free options says Jaron Lanier
An influential tech evangelist has called at the TED 2018 conference for an overhaul of Facebook and Google's business models. Jaron Lanier, who is often referred to as a "father of virtual reality", told the Vancouver event that the two firms should let users pay for their services as an …
Zuckerberg says you control your Facebook info — but it’s much more complicated than he says
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg suggests it's easy for users to control who sees what they share with the social network. This isn't as easy as Zuckerberg suggests. It's actually pretty complicated to manage all of your Facebook settings. This is a point that senators and Congress members are trying to … …
What You Don’t Know About How Facebook Uses Your Data
Facebook has been called on the carpet for how it has failed to protect the personal data of its users. But lost in the drama of congressional hearings is an understanding of the extent to which Facebook meticulously scrutinizes the minutiae of those users' online lives. Facebook's tracking stretches far … …
Facebook is still a ‘revenue juggernaut,’ asset manager says — so buy on the dip
Facebook is center stage this week as founder Mark Zuckerberg testifies to Congress over issues relating to its mismanagement of user data and privacy. Amid an uncertain future for the technology sector's regulatory environment and its effect on the markets, one asset manager is particularly bullish on … Read More
Mark Zuckerberg says his personal data was included in Cambridge Analytica breach – live
Sarbanes is speculating that Facebook embeds with the campaigns granted special approval rights to allow them to get approval for 90x more ads than Clinton did. Zuck says that didn't happen. The Trump campaign did run many more types of advertisements, but that has generally been assumed to be … Read …
Cambridge Analytica may have accessed some Facebook users’ messages
The app permissions that led to 87 million Facebook users' data being harvested and sold to Cambridge Analytica may have also allowed access to those users' inboxes, the company confirmed today. This wasn't achieved by any underhanded means, exactly, but people might not have realized that … Read More
An open letter to that useless Facebook friend who shared your data
The Facebook scandal has taught me a valuable lesson this week. When the inevitable zombie-virus apocalypse hits us, the whole world will be infected because a few people didn't wash their hands. No matter how prepared we are, how many vaccinations we've stockpiled or how many faceless … Read More
Here’s how much Facebook donated to every lawmaker questioning Mark Zuckerberg this week
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce today, fresh off the heels of a grueling five-hour joint session before the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees yesterday. In total, Zuckerberg will face questions from nearly 100 … Read More