Facebook is being hammered for allowing the data firm Cambridge Analytica to acquire 50 million user profiles in the U.S., which it may or may not have used 1 to help the Trump campaign. But the outrage misses the target: There’s nothing Cambridge Analytica could have done that Facebook itself doesn’t offer political clients. Here, […]
Ruh Roh: Former Obama Campaign Director Drops Bombshell Claim on on Facebook: ‘They Were on Our Side’…
A former Obama campaign official is claiming that Facebook knowingly allowed them to mine massive amounts of Facebook data — more than they would’ve allowed someone else to do — because they were supportive of the campaign. In a Sunday tweet thread, Carol Davidsen, former director of integration and media analytics for Obama for America, […]
Hhhhmmm: Maxine Water “the President has put in place an organization that contains a kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life”…
FLASHBACK: How Obama Tapped into Facebook’s Power…
Facebook’s Role in Data Misuse Sets Off Storms on Two Continents…
Facebook on Sunday faced a backlash about how it protects user data, as American and British lawmakers demanded that it explain how a political data firm with links to President Trump’s 2016 campaign was able to harvest private information from more than 50 million Facebook profiles without the social network’s alerting users. Senator Amy Klobuchar […]
50 Million Facebook Profiles Harvested…
Watch Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower: ‘We spent $1M Harvesting Millions of Facebook Profiles’…
Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook—and the World…
One day in late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook’s employees to address some troubling behavior in the ranks. His message pertained to some walls at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters where staffers are encouraged to scribble notes and signatures. On at least a couple of occasions, someone had […]
Facebook Moves to Ban Advertising Promoting Cryptocurrency…
On Tuesday, Facebook announced a new policy banning ads promoting cryptocurrency, as a means of preventing what the company called “financial products and services frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices.” This means that advertisers – including companies that operate fully legal businesses – will be banned from the promotion of cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, […]
Facebook Set for NSA Privacy Grilling as EU Court Greenlights Max Schrems Lawsuit…
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled Austrian activist Max Schrems can bring a case against Facebook over privacy violations, but that he can’t bring a class action suit against the social media giant. “@EUCourtPress decides: I can finally sue Facebook in Vienna over Privacy violations!” Schrems wrote on Twitter. “However, it limits consumer […]
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