Facebook’s Zuckerberg under pressure to testify to UK lawmakers
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is facing renewed calls to give evidence to UK lawmakers, after the whistleblower at the heart of a major privacy scandal that has wiped more than $60bn off the company's market valuation made a series of new allegations on Tuesday. Chris Wylie, a former … Read …
You Don’t Need To Delete Facebook — Just Change The Way You Use It
But the call to simply abandon Facebook leans on the assumption that disentangling yourself after years of engagement is a simple task. For many users — myself included — it isn't. And suggestions that Twitter, the phone, or email could serve as an appropriate replacement to the expansive social … Read …
Cambridge Analytica and Facebook: The scandal so far
On March 17, the London Observer and The New York Times reported that UK-based data firm Cambridge Analytica acquired millions of Facebook users' personal information to build software that could target potential swing voters in political campaigns, including US President Donald Trump's 2016 … Read More
Here’s how to find out what Facebook knows about you
The question gained a little more urgency over the weekend when Facebook acknowledged that its Android app had been collecting call and text histories from phones running Google's Android system in 2015 — first via its Messenger app and later through an option in Facebook Lite, a stripped-down … Read More
Facebook could see a ‘bear market rally’ after brutal sell-offs, says market watcher
Facebook shares have been beaten into a bear market, and one market watcher says this has set it up for a big rebound. "We think you have a very high probability of say a 10 to 15 [percent], maybe close to a 20 percent, bounce," Larry McDonald, editor of the …
What lies beneath: The things Facebook knows go beyond user data
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations regarding the exposure of profile data for millions of users, Facebook is now facing an investigation into its data-collection practices by the Federal Trade Commission. In a statement issued on March 26, FTC Consumer Protection Bureau Acting Director … Read More
A new Firefox add-on limits Facebook tracking
It's safe to say that Facebook's treatment of its users' personal data is front and center, with the recent revelations about Cambridge Analytica. Many users are going as far as to stop using the social network altogether. But Mozilla has another option: It's created an add-on called Facebook Container for …
You had questions about your Facebook data. I have answers
I recently wrote about downloading 14 years of my Facebook data, where I uncovered a large collection of personal information about my life that the company has held onto over the years. I fell down that rabbit hole on Friday, days after news broke that the data firm Cambridge Analytica …
Facebook data misuse scandal affects “substantially” more than 50M, claims Wylie
Chris Wylie, the former Cambridge Analytica employee turned whistleblower whose revelations about Facebook data being misused for political campaigning has wiped billions off the share price of the company in recent days and led to the FTC opening a fresh investigation, has suggested the scale of … Read More
Facebook sued for allegedly enabling housing discrimination
In 2016, investigative news outlet ProPublica first documented how Facebook allowed advertisers to place housing ads that excluded users based on their race, apparently in violation of the Fair Housing Act. A follow-up report in 2017 found that, despite promises, the company continued to allow similar … Read More