What started as a row over how Cambridge Analytica harvested data of 50 million Facebook users, mainly in the US, has quickly expanded into a long-overdue public debate on how Facebook and other internet giants collect, handle and package our data to make their multibillion-dollar profits. Read More

One lawsuit filed yesterday in Northern California on behalf of a Facebook shareholder, Jeremiah Hallisey, alleges the company's senior management “breached their fiduciary duties by failing to prevent the initial misappropriation [of user data by CA] and, after learning of it in 2015, failing to inform … Read More

Addressing the FT Future of News conference, Campbell Brown, head of news partnerships at Facebook, said: “If it were me I would have probably not threatened to sue the Guardian,” adding it was “not our wisest move”. GMG received a legal letter from Facebook the day before the Observer reported … …

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's admission of a "breach of trust" over Cambridge Analytica's misuse of user data has sparked a flurry of fear as Australians wonder just how vulnerable they are online. Experts have warned that social media users need to know how much of their data they are making … …

The firestorm that erupted over Facebook's decision to ban Cambridge Analytica — and the ensuing revelations that the user data of 50 million Facebook users were accessed by the political consulting and marketing firm without those users' permission — has slashed Facebook stock and brought calls … Read More

Unless you've been living under the digital version of a rock then you're perhaps aware how Facebook finds itself in the eye of a major storm. So much so that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has admitted the mistake on the company's part and apologized for the way it handled data …

“He avoided the big issue,” an analyst said, “which is that for many years, Facebook was basically giving away user data like it was handing out candy.” On “The Daily” podcast, one of the reporters who interviewed Mr. Zuckerberg described how it went. (Facebook's outreach was so sudden, they had …

At this point, “Why don't you just delete Facebook” is the internet's equivalent of asking, “Why didn't they just leave before the hurricane came” — because it vastly misrepresents how embedded Facebook is at every cultural turn most of us take, and deflects social responsibility away from Facebook onto … Read …

Using public data posted on a web site is legal. This is the bread and butter of Internet marketing companies. But according to a recent New York Times investigation, Cambridge Analytica collected data from Facebook users and their friends without consent, leaving both companies potentially liable for … Read More

The largest breach in social media history allegedly stole Facebook users account information and used it against them. The Facebook app My Digital Life, developed by the firm Cambridge Analytica paid 270,000 account holders to take a personality test. Then used that data to steal every account … Read More