Facebook users might have already moved on to the company’s next notable outrage, but the company is still answering for its privacy missteps from earlier this year. Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine filed a lawsuit against Facebook on Wednesday, alleging that the company has not fulfilled its responsibility to protect user data. Racine’s office […]
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For the first time, Facebook faces lawsuit from U.S. regulators over Cambridge Analytica
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Finally, after waves of bad press, showy Congressional hearings, and hashtag campaigns, regulators in the U.S. are trying to punish Facebook for the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
A lawsuit against the company was filed by Karl Racine, the attorney general for the District of Columbia, the Washington Post confirmed Wednesday.
Cambridge Analytica, a data firm funded in part by former Breitbart exec and White House strategist Steve Bannon, helped guide Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. It obtained data from a psychology professor, Aleksandr Kogan, who built a personality quiz that obtained permission to access data from 270,000 Facebook users — but, because Facebook allowed developers to access to data on friends of those users, it ultimately provided information on more than 50 million profiles. Read more…
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Facebook swears released internal emails are just ‘one side of the story’
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Guys, there’s really no reason to get worked up about all of thisFacebook promises.
Following the release of 250 pages of internal Facebook emails and documents by UK lawmakers, everyone’s favorite social media platform published a lengthy statement assuring us that things really aren’t as bad as they first look. And it’s not like Facebook, your old friend, would ever mislead you.
The statement, issued the same day the documents were released, seeks to paint the trove of emails as a biased excerpt which casts Facebook in the most negative of lights. Right off the bat, it takes a swing at the makers of the Pikinis app — which obtained the now-released documents via a lawsuit. Read more…
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View More Facebook swears released internal emails are just ‘one side of the story’UK lawmakers just released a trove of internal Facebook documents
Just like our own Facebook profiles, Facebook’s past activities keep coming back to haunt them.
The UK has released a 250 page document containing private emails from Facebook, including communiques from Mark Zuckerberg himself.
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Facebook documents seized by the UK government could end up being published
The UK government has seized documents from a software company as part of an ongoing inquiry into the way Facebook handles its users’ data.
The documents from Six4Three apparently contain emails between Facebook senior executives including Mark Zucke…
Tech giants offer empty apologies because users can’t quit
A true apology consists of a sincere acknowledgement of wrong-doing, a show of empathic remorse for why you wronged and the harm it caused, and a promise of restitution by improving ones actions to make things right. Without the follow-through, saying sorry isn’t an apology, it’s a hollow ploy for forgiveness. That’s the kind of […]
View More Tech giants offer empty apologies because users can’t quitUK parliament seizes cache of internal Facebook documents to further privacy probe
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg may yet regret underestimating a UK parliamentary committee that’s been investigating the democracy-denting impact of online disinformation for the best part of this year — and whose repeat requests for facetime he’s just as repeatedly snubbed. In the latest high gear change, reported in yesterday’s Observer, the committee has used parliamentary powers […]
View More UK parliament seizes cache of internal Facebook documents to further privacy probeFacebook policy VP, Richard Allan, to face the international ‘fake news’ grilling that Zuckerberg won’t
An unprecedented international grand committee comprised of 22 representatives from seven parliaments will meet in London next week to put questions to Facebook about the online fake news crisis and the social network’s own string of data misuse scandals. But Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg won’t be providing any answers. The company has repeatedly refused requests […]
View More Facebook policy VP, Richard Allan, to face the international ‘fake news’ grilling that Zuckerberg won’tFacebook appeals UK data watchdog’s £500k Cambridge Analytica fine
Facebook has said it will appeal against a £500,000 penalty issued by the UK’s data watchdog this summer following a lengthy investigation into the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal. Facebook told the regulator an estimated one million UK users were among the 87M of its users whose private data was harvested by Dr. Aleksandr Kogan and his company […]
View More Facebook appeals UK data watchdog’s £500k Cambridge Analytica fineNow eight parliaments are demanding Zuckerberg answers for Facebook scandals
Facebook’s founder is facing pressure to accept an invite from eight international parliaments, with lawmakers wanting to question him about negative impacts his social network is having on democratic processes globally. Last week Facebook declined a invitation from five of these parliaments. The elected representatives of Facebook users want Mark Zuckerberg to answer questions in […]
View More Now eight parliaments are demanding Zuckerberg answers for Facebook scandalsMark Zuckerberg believes Facebook is at ‘war,’ report says
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Mark Zuckerberg is feeling the heat.
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Facebook’s founder and CEO believes his company is currently at “war.” The comment came from Mark Zuckerberg this past June in a meeting with a few dozen of Facebook’s top executives amid the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
In this same June meeting, Zuckerberg told executives that he was going to be taking a more active role in Facebook’s day-to-day operations. With the social media platform fighting on multiple fronts — between Congress, the press, and even his own executives — Zuckerberg clearly felt he needed to take a more active role. Read more…
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Facebook must change and policymakers must act on data, warns UK watchdog
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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