Fallout from Facebook privacy scandal only just beginning
The British authorities on Friday raided the London offices of Cambridge Analytica, sweeping it for evidence that could implicate the scandal-hit communications company in illegal data mining on Facebook to influence voters in political campaigns. The move is the latest in a slew of investigations across … Read More
Facebook was warned of risk to users’ data two years before Cambridge Analytica breach
Facebook was warned that its users were at risk two years before the data of 50 million people was accessed by a controversial political firm, the Telegraph can disclose. In 2011, the social media giant's European regulator cautioned that it was failing to ensure that data was protected when passed …
Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones
This past week, a New Zealand man was looking through the data Facebook had collected from him in an archive he had pulled down from the social networking site. While scanning the information Facebook had stored about his contacts, Dylan McKay discovered something distressing: Facebook also … Read More
Tim Cook Takes His Turn to Dunk on Facebook, Backing Data Privacy Regulations
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk very publicly deleted his companies' Facebook accounts this week, though it's unclear whether the move will be permanent. (Might have something to do with bad blood over that satellite of Zuckerberg's he accidentally blew up.) Now Apple CEO Tim Cook, whose … Read More
Amid Facebook data scandal, Apple CEO Cook talks up regulation
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday that he was open to some sort of regulation following news that information from millions of accounts on the social network was used without people's permission by Cambridge Analytica, a digital consultancy hired by the Trump presidential campaign. Read More
Facebook’s week of shame: the Cambridge Analytica fallout
The trajectory of what happened since is a case study in how complex truths stubbornly pieced together can eventually capture the wider imagination. The first act in this drama was a legal challenge by Facebook, an attempt to suppress Carole's interview with the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower … Read More
Facebook was warned of risk to users’ data two years before it was accessed
Facebook responded with minor changes to the way users were notified about how apps were gathering data but did not fully block the practice for another four years. The discovery of the warning raises new questions about why Facebook did not act sooner to protect users' private information. Read More
Facebook and the big data business
It's called psychosocial profiling and it's put Facebook and the business of big data in the spotlight. Facebook makes money out of selling digital advertising space – with an annual revenue of $40bn. Over 1.4 billion people log into Facebook every day, but we don't know what they're selling about …
Don’t Delete Facebook. Do Something About It.
On March 16, as the buzzer sounded in perhaps the worst upset in N.C.A.A. tournament history, and my beloved University of Virginia went down to the 16th-seeded University of Maryland, Baltimore County, I had one thought: I need to deactivate my Facebook account. I did not want to endure the …
I downloaded 14 years of my Facebook data and here’s what happened
It had the phone number of my late grandmother who never had a Facebook account, or even an email address. It preserved the conversations I had with an ex– someone with whom I thought I had deleted my digital ties. It even recalled times I was "poked," a feature I …