Facebook: “One of the largest data breaches in the history of the company”
And built models to exploit what we knew about them and target their inner demons. That was the basis that the entire company was built on," Wylie told the Observer. The more than 50 million profiles represented about a third of active North American Facebook users, and nearly a quarter …
Facebook’s Recurring Nightmare: Helping Muddy up Elections
FILE – This Monday, June 19, 2017, file photo shows a user signing in to Facebook on an iPad, in North Andover, Mass. Facebook has a problem it just can't kick: People keep exploiting it in ways that could sway elections and even undermine democracy. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File) The …
Whistleblower Christopher Wylie says he’s now been blocked by Facebook
Christopher Wylie, a whistleblower who revealed the role played by data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica in obtaining data from Facebook users, said on Sunday he was blocked by the social media network. On Twitter, Wylie claimed his account was suspended after he spoke up about his role in an … Read …
Breach leaves Facebook users wondering: how safe is my data?
It was only last week, four days after the Observer asked Facebook about the improper transfer of data, that the company moved to suspend Cambridge Analytica from its platform. More troubling still is the apparent lack of any systematic response to ensure the same type of breach does not happen … …
UK Alleges Facebook-Linked Data Firm CEO Made False Statements
Damian Collins, chair of the U.K. Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, said he will ask Nix to explain his comments and answer further questions about the company's connections to the Facebook data. He also plans to ask Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to have a senior executive of the social … …
What is Cambridge Analytica? The firm at the centre of Facebook’s data breach
It collects data from a wide range of sources, including social media platforms such as Facebook, and its own polling. With its headquarters in London, the firm was set up in 2013 as an offshoot of another company called SCL Group, which offers similar services around the world. In an …
No one can pretend Facebook is just harmless fun any more
The revelation that Cambridge Analytica exploited the data of 50 million Facebook profiles to target American voters is indeed frightening. But Cambridge Analytica shouldn't act as a diversion from the real bad guy in this story: Facebook. It is mystifying that as his company regulates the flow of … Read More
Facebook confirms Cambridge Analytica stole its data; it’s a plot claims former director
Analysis Facebook has “suspended” any business with Cambridge Analytica and its holding company following claims by CA's former director that the social media ad slinger's data was purloined and used for political dirty tricks. In a statement Facebook said that in April 2015 Dr Aleksandr Kogan, … Read More
Data scandal is huge blow for Facebook – and efforts to study its impact on society
Facebook has yet to face a major hack like Yahoo, Equifax or LinkedIn. So protective is the site of its user data that it makes it very difficult for scholars to study its impact on society. Unfortunately for researchers, the newly reported misappropriation of data is likely to make that …
Cambridge Analytica and Facebook accused of misleading MPs over data breach
After a whistleblower detailed the harvesting of more than 50 million Facebook profiles for Cambridge Analytica, Damian Collins, the chair of the House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee, said he would be calling on the Facebook boss, Mark Zuckerberg, to testify before the … Read More