Hoping to tamp down the furor that erupted over reports that its user data was improperly acquired by Cambridge Analytica, Facebook has hired the digital forensics firm, Stroz Friedberg, to perform an audit on the political consulting and marketing firm. In a statement, Facebook said that Cambridge Analytica has agreed to comply and give Stroz Friedberg access […]
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Academic who created Cambridge Analytica’s personality test is ‘happy to testify’: report
Lawmakers are calling for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify in the wake of a massive data scandal centered around the political research company, Cambridge Analytica, and how it harvested the private Facebook data of more than 50 million Americ…
View More Academic who created Cambridge Analytica’s personality test is ‘happy to testify’: reportDemocratic Senator launches inquiry into Facebook’s data-sharing policy
Facebook will soon provide more answers about how and why Cambridge Analytica was able to amass Facebook user data for 50 million people without getting expressed permission.
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) sent an letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on …
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Facebook is using us. It is actively giving away our information. It is creating an echo chamber in the name of connection. It surfaces the divisive and destroys the real reason we began using social media in the first place – human connection. It is a cancer. I’ve begun the slow process of weaning myself […]
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Remember the Marlboro Man? He was a sexy vision of the American west, created by a cigarette corporation to sell a fatal product. People knew this and used that product anyway, at great detriment to themselves and those around them who quietly inhaled toxic secondhand smoke, day into long night.
An agreement between states and tobacco companies banished the rugged cowboy at the end of the 1990s, but the symbol is useful even 20 years later as we contend with a less deadly but no less frightening corporate force. Social networks that many of us signed up for in simpler times — a proverbial first smoke — have become gargantuan archives of our personal data. Now, that data is collected and leveraged by bad actors in an attempt to manipulate you and your friends. Read more…
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Facebook set to be grilled by lawmakers over Trump-linked data firm
Cambridge Analytica is the name on everyone’s lips right now, and British and U.S. lawmakers want to know about Facebook’s dealings with it.
The U.K. based political data firm has been suspended by Facebook, following revelations it used the pe…
Facebook and the endless string of worst-case scenarios
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 extent of the problems. This approach, willful or not, has led to […]
View More Facebook and the endless string of worst-case scenariosFacebook has suspended the account of the whistleblower who exposed Cambridge Analytica
Tech hath no fury like a multi-billion dollar social media giant scorned. 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 […]
View More Facebook has suspended the account of the whistleblower who exposed Cambridge AnalyticaEverything you need to know about the Cambridge Analytica controversy
Facebook is once again in hot water over the role its policies may have played in the election.
On Saturday, two explosive reports from The Guardian and The New York Times surfaced alleging that more than 50 million Facebook users had personal data u…
Facebook investigating a current employee who has ties to that Trump-linked data firm
The hits keep on coming for Facebook.
On Friday, the social media company booted the Donald Trump campaign-linked data firm Cambridge Analytica from its platform. On Saturday, we learned why: The firm played a role in secretly harvesting data belongi…
Regulators in the UK are also calling for more hearings into Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
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 […]
View More Regulators in the UK are also calling for more hearings into Facebook and Cambridge AnalyticaFacebook’s latest privacy debacle stirs up more regulatory interest from lawmakers
Facebook’s late Friday disclosure that a data analytics company with ties to the Trump campaign improperly obtained — and then failed to destroy — the private data of 50 million users is generating more unwanted attention from politicians, some of whom were already beating the drums of regulation in the company’s direction. On Saturday morning, […]
View More Facebook’s latest privacy debacle stirs up more regulatory interest from lawmakers