Facebook has started notifying millions of users that were affected by the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. As many as 87 million Facebook users had their information improperly obtained and used, and it has taken Facebook nearly three years to notify its users of the privacy problems that were … Read More

Millions of Facebook users will be notified today that their information was possibly shared with political data firm Cambridge Analytica. The social media giant is sending notifications out Monday to as many as 87 million people whose data was accessed by Cambridge or misused by other companies. Read More

Facebook will seek researchers' help in preventing future election manipulation on the social media platform and, in its campaign to improve privacy, has suspended two more data firms as part of an ongoing investigation into the potential misuse of user data by political targeting firm Cambridge … Read More

Facebook reportedly suspended another analytics firm, CubeYou, over the weekend after CNBC found it was harvesting users' personal information through similar means as Cambridge Analytica. After labeling its personality quizzes “for non-profit academic research,” CNBC reported, the firm passed … Read More

Facebook has announced it will inform users if their data was wrongly shared with political data firm Cambridge Analytica. From today, the social media giant will show a "protecting your information" link at the top of each user's news feed. Following that link, users will be directed to a section …

Roughly 87 million people had their Facebook data stolen by the political research firm Cambridge Analytica. And starting today, Facebook will finally notify the people who had their information scooped up. About 70 million are in the US, while the rest are primarily in the UK, Indonesia, and the … Read …

The data wars began in earnest last month, with revelations that my former company Cambridge Analytica had access to the data of 87m Facebook users without their permission. This breach was far from exceptional: the social network's policies have allowed thousands of companies, apps and data … Read More

Cubeyou, a New York-based data analytics firm that offers “fast, easy and accurate consumer insights” to customers, gathered some of its user data with Facebook quizzes developed in conjunction with the University of Cambridge. The quizzes carrying the disclaimer that information gathered would be … Read More

Facebook members will find out from 17:00 BST whether they are among the 87 million potential users whose data was shared with Cambridge Analytica. Every account holder will receive one of two notices informing them whether their data was breached. The tech giant said people will also be shown … Read …

Facebook is facing calls from consumer groups to make the European Union's incoming GDPR data protection framework the “baseline standard for all Facebook services”. The update to the bloc's data protection framework is intended to strengthen consumers' control over how their personal data is … Read More