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Facebook parent Meta to settle Cambridge Analytica scandal case for $725 mln

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...

Facebook agrees to pay fine over Cambridge Analytica scandal

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

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

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

Eight months after revealing the links between Facebook and Cambridge Analytica (CA), whistleblower Christopher Wylie is pushing for the internet giant to be regulated...

Facebook removes ‘treason’ as tag

Facebook has removed “treason” as a keyword to identify its users’ interests for advertisers, it said on Wednesday, after Danish state broadcaster DR revealed...

Facebook still evasive over Cambridge Analytica and fake news

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...

Cambridge Analytica shared data with Russia: whistleblower

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

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...

Cambridge Analytica shutting down: WSJ

LONDON: The Cambridge Analytica consultancy at the centre of this year’s Facebook privacy row is closing, the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday reported...

Majority of divisive Facebook ads bought by ‘suspicious groups’

WASHINGTON: Most of the political ads about divisive issues that ran on Facebook before the 2016 U.S. presidential election were sponsored by “suspicious groups”...

Facebook CEO says his own data was shared by Cambridge Analytica

Mark Zuckerberg told lawmakers that his own personal data was included in that of 87 million or so Facebook users that was improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

‘I’m sorry’ for data abuses’

Facebook chairman Mark Zuckerberg offered apologies to US lawmakers Tuesday as he made a long-awaited appearance in a congressional hearing on the hijacking of...

Here is what social media platforms and search engines know about you

The Facebook scandal involving the harvesting of data from tens of millions of users has raised a lot of questions about social media and...

Zuckerberg says Facebook could have done more to prevent misuse

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told Congress that the social media network should have done more to prevent data being misused and offered a broad apology to lawmakers.

Facebook to verify identities for political ads

WASHINGTON: Facebook announced Friday that it will require any political ads on its platform to state who is paying for the message, and would...

Facebook says data leak hits 87 million users, widening privacy scandal

Facebook said the personal information of up to 87 million users, mostly in the United States, may have been improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica,

Facebook cuts ties to data brokers in blow to targeted ads

Facebook said it would end its partnerships with several large data brokers who help advertisers target people on the social network, a step that follows a scandal over how Facebook handles personal information.

Facebook unveils new privacy settings amid data breach outcry

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook on Wednesday unveiled new privacy settings aiming to give its users more control over how their data is shared, following an...

US consumer agency confirms Facebook probe

A US consumer protection agency said it has opened an investigation into Facebook for potentially failing to live up to its promises on privacy and possible violations of a consent decree.

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