Aleksandr Kogan, a research associate in the department of psychology at the University of Cambridge, turned over his Facebook-generated personality research to the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. In an email to university colleagues he called Facebook's side of the story a "fabrication.". Read More

Innocent victim or background contributor? Facebook now faces questions from authorities on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean after news reports in The Guardian and The New York Times this week revealed that a psychologist illicitly gave data from 50 million Facebook users to a political consulting firm … Read More

Zuckerberg, who is expected to complete a CNN interview airing Wednesday evening, said in a Facebook post on Wednesday that he claims responsibility for protecting users' data and has been working to understand what happened to ensure a similar leak doesn't happen again. He also outlined … Read More

On Wednesday afternoon, though, he addressed the problem in a personal Facebook post and laid out some of the solutions he will introduce. He then gave an interview to WIRED in which he discussed the recent crisis, the mistakes Facebook made, and different models for how the company could be … …

The drumbeat to regulate Big Tech began pounding long before the Cambridge Analytica scandal rocked Facebook—six long years ago, the Obama administration pushed a “Privacy Bill of Rights” that, like most other legislative attempts to safeguard your data online, went nowhere. But this time, as they … Read More

The data scientist at the center of Facebook's data controversy says the company knew he passed information to Cambridge Analytica, and called Facebook's side of the story a "fabrication." Those claims came in an email obtained by Bloomberg that University of Cambridge data scientist Aleksandr … Read More

Backstory: In case you missed it, Facebook is embroiled in a huge scandal because of the way its users' data was shared with Cambridge Analytica, a firm that provided data to the Trump election campaign in 2016. Overlooked whistleblowers: Ex-Facebook staffer Sandy Parakilas told British politicians … Read More

Facebook's latest privacy scandal, involving Trump campaign consultants who allegedly stole data on tens of millions of users in order to influence elections, has some people reconsidering their relationship status with the social network. There's just one problem: There isn't much of anywhere else to go … Read More

“I started Facebook, and at the end of the day I'm responsible for what happens on our platform” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted after days of the public and government officials waiting for him to speak up about the Cambridge Analytica scandal since it broke Friday. “We have a responsibility …

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally addressed the growing crisis confronting his company over how Cambridge Analytica allegedly used data collected from 50 million users without their direct consent in its work for Donald Trump's presidential campaign. After days of silence, … Read More