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Mark Zuckerberg to testify in $8B trial over Facebook's alleged illegal data practices post-Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Apps are harvesting data on you constantly-sometimes beyond what they need. Here's why it matters, how it's used, and what you can do to regain some control ...
Notably, a slide revealed that Facebook had considered a paid, ad-free model in 2018, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The FTC called Jim Goetz, an investor in WhatsApp from Sequoia Capital.
Google and Amazon collect massive amounts of data on their users and customers, and are due for their own privacy reckonings.
Cambridge University is not directly affiliated with Cambridge Analytica, and Kogan's work for Cambridge Analytica was not tied to his job at the University.
Cambridge Analytica: Who are they, and did they really help Trump win the White House? After the claims made by whistleblower Christopher Wylie, some have suggested the company might be all ...
Read about the saga of Facebook's failures in ensuring privacy for user data, including how it relates to Cambridge Analytica, the GDPR, the Brexit campaign, and the 2016 US presidential election.
Judy Faulkner, founder of Epic, one of the largest providers of electronic medical health records, warned that a proposed rule on information sharing could create a Cambridge Analytica-type ...
It’s been cracking down on app makers since Cambridge Analytica.
The FTC also settled with the app develop Aleksandr Kogan, who worked for the firm, and former Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix. The two agreed to follow FTC orders and destroy all personal ...
Cambridge Analytica has filed for bankruptcy and couldn’t settle the FTC’s allegations. But its former CEO as well as the person who developed the malicious app have settled.