Facebook parent Meta to settle Cambridge Analytica scandal case for $725 mln
- 23-Dec-2022
Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) has agreed to pay $725 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing the social media giant of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users’ personal information. The proposed settlement, which was disclosed in a court filing late on Thursday, would resolve a long-running lawsuit prompted by revelations […]
Facebook agrees to pay fine over Cambridge Analytica scandal
- 30-Oct-2019
Facebook has agreed to pay a 500,000 pound ($644,000) fine for breaches of data protection law related to the harvesting of data by consultancy Cambridge Analytica
Facebook could face billions of dollars in US fine over privacy
- 17-Feb-2019
The 2011 court-approved agreement required Facebook to notify users when it shares data with third parties and bars it from deceptive practices.
US negotiating multibillion-dollar fine with Facebook: report
- 15-Feb-2019
US has been investigating revelations that Facebook inappropriately shared information belonging to 87 million of its users with the now-defunct British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.
Fix Facebook, whether it wants to or not: whistleblower
- 02-Dec-2018
Eight months after revealing the links between Facebook and Cambridge Analytica (CA), whistleblower Christopher Wylie is pushing for the internet giant to be regulated — whether it wants to or not. He is scathing about Facebook’s “man-child” chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and the arrogance of the company he runs. “Facebook knew about what happened with […]
Facebook removes ‘treason’ as tag
- 12-Jul-2018
Facebook has removed “treason” as a keyword to identify its users’ interests for advertisers, it said on Wednesday, after Danish state broadcaster DR revealed its existence. In an article published on Wednesday, DR cited experts expressing concerns that the tag – that Facebook called an “interest category” – could be used by intelligence services in […]
Facebook still evasive over Cambridge Analytica and fake news
- 30-Jun-2018
LONDON: Facebook continues to be evasive in its answers to a British parliamentary committee examining a scandal over misuse of the social media company’s data by Cambridge Analytica, the committee’s chair said on Friday. Britain’s digital and media (DCMS) committee is examining fake news, and what the consultancy, employed by Donald Trump’s 2016 US presidential […]
Cambridge Analytica shared data with Russia: whistleblower
- 17-May-2018
Political consulting group Cambridge Analytica used Russian researchers and shared data with companies linked to Russian intelligence, a whistleblower told a congressional hearing on interference in the 2016 US election.
UK orders Cambridge Analytica to hand over American’s personal data
- 07-May-2018
UNITED KINGDOM: Britain’s data privacy watchdog has ordered Cambridge Analytica to hand over all the personal information it holds on a U.S. academic, confirming the right of people abroad to seek data held by a UK firm. Data privacy activists say that it sets a precedent that would enable millions of other U.S. voters to […]
Cambridge Analytica shutting down: WSJ
- 03-May-2018
LONDON: The Cambridge Analytica consultancy at the centre of this year’s Facebook privacy row is closing, the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday reported the founder of the firm’s UK-based parent as saying. SCL Group founder Nigel Oakes confirmed that both companies were closing, the WSJ said. The newspaper added, citing an unnamed source, that the […]