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The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica apology tour continues, with full-page ads in major newspapers

On Wednesday night, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ended days of silence on the social networking giant's latest controversy: Revelations that a political data firm called Cambridge Analytica absconded with the data of 50 million unsuspecting Facebook users, which Facebook knew about but kept … Read More

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Mark Zuckerberg apologizes for Facebook’s data privacy scandal in full-page newspaper ads

Facebook on Sunday took out full-page ads in seven British newspapers and three American ones to apologize for the ongoing Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal engulfing the social network in a legal and regulatory nightmare. The ads, which take the form of an apology penned by CEO Mark … Read More

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Towards a world without Facebook

Dear blockchain people: this is your hour. Abandon your transparently greedy get-rich-quick schemes, turn away from your casinos of de-facto modern-day penny stocks, and focus your decentralized attention on what the world needs. Save us, O blockchainers, from the scourge that is Facebook! Read More

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Facebook collected call and text data from Android phones for years

Recent controversy towards the state of data safety and privacy on Facebook has been heightened by the discovery that the social media company scraped data on calls and texts made on connected Android smartphones, at least during the period of November 2016 and July 2017. This comes courtesy … Read More

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Facebook is buying print ads to apologize for the Cambridge Analytica scandal

You may have heard about a quiz app built by a university researched that leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014. This was a breach of trust, and I'm sorry we didn't do more at the time. We're now taking steps to make sure this doesn't happen again. …

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Facebook boss Zuckerberg apologizes in UK newspapers for data leak

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg apologized to U.K. users for the Cambridge Analytica data leak scandal through full-page advertisements in British newspapers on Sunday. “You may have heard about a quiz app built by a university researcher that leaked Facebook data of millions of people … Read More

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Facebook has been collecting call history and SMS data from Android devices

Facebook has been collecting call records and SMS data from Android devices for years. Several Twitter users have reported finding months or years of call history data in their downloadable Facebook data file. A number of Facebook users have been spooked by the recent Cambridge Analytica privacy … Read More

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Facebook boss apologises in UK and US newspaper ads

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has taken out full-page adverts in several UK and US Sunday newspapers to apologise for the firm's recent data privacy scandal. He said Facebook could have done more to stop millions of users having their data exploited by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica … Read More

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Facebook takes out ADVERTS to say sorry: Founder Mark Zuckerberg issues a grovelling apology …

In the apology, the 33-year-old wrote: 'You may have heard about a quiz app built by a university researched that leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014. This was a breach of trust, and I'm sorry we didn't do more at the time. We're now taking steps to …

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg says sorry to Britons with newspaper apology ads

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg apologized to Britons on Sunday over a "breach of trust", taking out full page advertisements in British newspapers after a political consultancy got its hands on data on 50 million users. "We have a responsibility to protect your information. If we can't, we don't … Read …