Facebook said Wednesday that most of its 2 billion users likely have had their personal information scraped by outsiders without the users’ explicit permission, dramatically raising the stakes in a privacy controversy that has dogged the company for weeks, spurred investigations in the United States and Europe and sent the company’s stock price tumbling. The […]
Facebook Said the Personal Data of Most Its 2B Users Has Been Collected and Shared with Outsiders…
Facebook Shared Data from Nearly 87M Users…
Here’s Cambridge Analytica’s Plan for Voters’ Facebook Data…
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 […]
Commerzbank, Mozilla, Suspend Facebook Ad Campaigns as Advertisers Start Pulling Out…
Mark Zuckerberg Is Asked If People Can Trust Facebook — His Answer Says It All…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn’t give the best answer to CNN Wednesday when asked about whether people can trust his company. CNN’s Laurie Segall asked, “Facebook has asked us to share our data, to share our lives on its platform and it has wanted us to be transparent, and people don’t feel like they’ve received […]
There’s an Open Secret about Cambridge Analytica in the Political World: It Doesn’t Have the ‘Secret Sauce’ It Claims…
As Sen. Ted Cruz mounted a bid for the presidency in 2016, a nascent, data-obsessed company presented his campaign with an intriguing proposition. It had a “secret sauce” that no other firm could deliver. Cambridge Analytica promised a data service that was enhanced by its “psychographic” voter profiles. Unlike other services, Cambridge Analytica could micro-target […]
What’s Genius for Obama Is Scandal When It Comes to Trump…
On Sunday, The Guardian reported on the supposedly nefarious workings of President Trump’s data-gathering team at Cambridge Analytica. The report suggested that Cambridge Analytica had essentially issued questionnaires through a third party; those questionnaires, which were personality quizzes, requested that you use your Facebook login. Cambridge Analytica then compiled data regarding those who completed the […]
Cambridge Analytica Responds to Dirty Tricks Charge…
Cambridge Analytica rejects the allegations made in tonight’s Channel 4 News story regarding its business practices. The Channel 4 News report contained conversations between Cambridge Analytica senior executives and an undercover reporter posing as a Sri Lankan businessman. The report is edited and scripted to grossly misrepresent the nature of those conversations and how the […]