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Cambridge Analytica, a U.K.-based political consulting firm at the center of the recent Facebook data scandal, is "immediately ceasing all operations," the company said in a statement on Wednesday.

After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal broke in 2018, things got bad enough for Meta (then Facebook) that Mark Zuckerberg had to face Congress to try to explain what had happened. The focus on ...

Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy that worked for the Trump campaign and had come under attack for its use of personal Facebook data in other elections, announced on Wednesday it would ...

The scandal that has erupted around Cambridge Analytica’s alleged harvesting of 50m Facebook profiles assembled from data provided by a UK-based academic and his company is a worrying ...

Alexander Tayler, acting CEO, is stepping down, according to a statement from the Cambridge Analytica board of directors. The firm is at the heart of a scandal involving the use of Facebook data.

MAK: But because Cambridge Analytica was using misappropriated data for microtargeting purposes, questions about ethics and privacy are being raised about the underlying practice, says Kreiss.

Cambridge Analytica: What We Know About the Facebook Data Scandal New reports detail how a British-American company mined social-media profiles to try to influence the election By Eric Killelea ...

The scandal that has erupted around Cambridge Analytica’s alleged harvesting of 50m Facebook profiles assembled from data provided by a UK-based academic and his company is a worrying ...

According to a whistleblower, Cambridge Analytica gathered data from 50 million users (a figure that Facebook has now admitted could be as high as 87 million), then developed a software program ...

Related: Mark Zuckerberg breaks his silence on Cambridge Analytica scandal. On Friday, it was revealed that data analytics company Cambridge Analytica collected information about 50 million ...

Cambridge Analytica, the data company hired by President Trump’s 2016 campaign, announced on Wednesday it is closing its business after it said it misused Facebook user information.