This was revealed by Christopher Wylie, a whistleblower and analytics expert who worked with Cambridge Analytica. “We exploited Facebook to harvest millions of people's profiles,” he told The Guardian. “And built models to exploit what we knew about them and target their inner demons. That was the … Read More

In the latest turn of the developing scandal around how Facebook's user data wound up in the hands of Cambridge Analytica — for use in the in development in psychographic profiles that may or may not have played a part in the election victory of Donald Trump — the company …

“Data has been taken from Facebook users without their consent, and was then processed by a third party and used to support their campaigns. Facebook knew about this, and the involvement of Cambridge Analytica with it, and deliberately avoided answering straight questions from the Committee … Read More

U.S. and European officials on Sunday called for Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg to explain how personal information about tens of millions of users ended up in the hands of a data analysis firm that worked for President Trump's 2016 campaign — without the permission or knowledge of the … Read …

It is the latest twist in a complicated story that has played out over the last few days via statements from Facebook (FB), an investigative report by The New York Times and London's The Observer, and revelations from the people involved. Wylie co-founded and previously worked as a data analyst …

Wylie's allegations appeared over the weekend in The New York Times and The Observer and detail how Cambridge Analytica sought and acquired Facebook-derived data on more than 50 million people and used the trove to conduct micro-targeted political campaigns thought to have contributed to … Read More

Facebook has naively put its faith in humanity and repeatedly been abused, exploited, and proven either negligent or complicit. The company routinely ignores or downplays the worst-case scenarios, idealistically building products without the necessary safeguards, and then drags its feet to admit the … Read More

A loophole that led to a political data firm using unauthorised information collected from Facebook users in Donald Trump's campaign was raised with an Irish regulator in 2011 but not closed for three years. In his complaint about Facebook to Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner in August 2011, … Read More

The company on Friday said that a professor used Facebook's log-in tools to get people to sign up for what he claimed was a personality-analysis app he had designed for academic purposes. To take the quiz, 270,000 people gave the app permission to access data via Facebook on themselves and … …

Facebook is investigating links one of its current employees may have to Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that worked with the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign. The New York Times and the UK's Guardian and Observer newspapers reported Saturday that Cambridge Analytica harvested … Read More