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Facebook must change and policymakers must act on data, warns UK watchdog

sudshr47 November 6, 2018

The UK’s data watchdog has warned that Facebook must overhaul its privacy-hostile business model or risk burning user trust for good. Comments she made today have also raised questions over the legality of so-called lookalike audiences to target political ads at users of its platform. Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham was giving evidence to the Digital, […]

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Cambridge Analytica’s Nix said it licensed “millions of data points” from Acxiom, Experian, Infogroup to target US voters

sudshr47 June 6, 2018

The repeat grilling by the UK parliament’s DCMS committee today of Alexander Nix, the former CEO of the now ex company Cambridge Analytica — aka the controversial political and commercial ad agency at the center of a Facebook data misuse scandal — was not able to shed much new light on what may or may not […]

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Cambridge Analytica’s ex-CEO backs out of giving evidence to UK parliament

sudshr47 April 17, 2018

Alexander Nix, the former CEO of the political consultancy firm at the center of a storm about mishandled Facebook users data, has backed out of re-appearing in front of the UK parliament for a second time. Nix had been scheduled to take questions from the DCMS committee that’s probing online misinformation tomorrow afternoon. In a […]

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CA also used ‘sex compass’ and other quiz apps for sucking Facebook data, says former employee

sudshr47 April 17, 2018

Brittney Kaiser, a former employee for Cambridge Analytica — who left the company in January and is today giving evidence in front of a UK parliament committee that’s investigating online misinformation — has suggested that data on far more Facebook users may have found its way into the consultancy’s hands than the up to 87M […]

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Here’s Cambridge Analytica’s plan for voters’ Facebook data

sudshr47 March 29, 2018

More details have emerged about how Facebook data on millions of US voters was handled after it was obtained in 2014 by UK political consultancy Cambridge Analytica for building psychographic profiles of Americans to target election messages for the Trump campaign. The dataset — of more than 50M Facebook users — is at the center […]

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Palantir confirms a staff link with Cambridge Analytica

sudshr47 March 28, 2018

Turns out there is a link between Peter Thiel’s secretive big data analytics firm, Palantir, and Cambridge Analytica — the political consulting firm at the center of the current Facebook data misuse scandal. Facebook responds to data misuse Starting in 2013, the New York Times reports that a UK-based Palantir employee worked with Cambridge Analytica — going […]

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Facebook data misuse scandal affects “substantially” more than 50M, claims Wylie

sudshr47 March 27, 2018

Chris Wylie, the former Cambridge Analytica employee turned whistleblower whose revelations about Facebook data being misused for political campaigning has wiped billions off the share price of the company in recent days and led to the FTC opening a fresh investigation, has suggested the scale of the data leak is substantially larger than has been […]

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Cambridge Analytica’s Nix recalled by fake news probe

sudshr47 March 22, 2018

Stock up on the popcorn — the currently suspended CEO of the firm at the center of a data handling and political ad-targeting storm currently embroiling Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, has been recalled by a UK parliamentary committee that’s running a probe into the impact of fake news because it’s unhappy with the quality of his […]

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Zuck and Sandberg go M.I.A. as Congress summons Facebook leadership by name

sudshr47 March 20, 2018

The bad thing about making your face synonymous with the company you run: When you go M.I.A., everyone tends to notice. The callout posts began over the weekend. Normal Facebook users don’t always track the tech press outrage cycle, but a flurry of reporting on Facebook’s mishandling of the private data of 50 million users, […]

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Cambridge Analytica used self-destructing email to cover its tracks

sudshr47 March 20, 2018

When you’re in the self-described business of bribing politicians and influencing elections, it’s perhaps best not to leave a digital paper trail.

Cambridge Analytica has that all figured out.

According to a London Channel 4 investigation published today, the data analytics and electoral strategy firm that worked with the Trump presidential campaign used an encrypted email service to communicate with clients — and set email to self-delete after two hours.

So explained now-former Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix, who was caught on hidden camera telling a journalist posing as a potential client that his company uses an email client called ProtonMail to proactively delete potential evidence. Read more…

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Cambridge Analytica used self-destructing email to cover its tracks

sudshr47 March 20, 2018

When you’re in the self-described business of bribing politicians and influencing elections, it’s perhaps best not to leave a digital paper trail.

Cambridge Analytica has that all figured out.

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Regulators in the UK are also calling for more hearings into Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

sudshr47 March 18, 2018

As more details emerge about Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook data in the U.S. presidential election, members of Parliament in the UK are joining congressional leadership in the U.S. to call for a deeper investigation and potential regulatory action. The Chair of parliamentary committee investigating “fake news”, the conservative MP Damian Collins, accused both Cambridge […]