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Meta Investors Appeal to Revive Cambridge Analytica Fraud Case
Meta Platforms investors formally asked a US appeals court to revive a proposed class action accusing the Facebook parent of concealing a serious privacy breach that let a political consulting firm harvest users' personal information. The request came during oral arguments on Wednesday before the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ...
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Meta Said to Settle Cambridge Analytica Scandal Case for $725 Million
Facebook owner Meta 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 revela...
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Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Sued by District of Columbia Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal
The District of Columbia on Monday reportedly sued Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, seeking to hold him personally liable for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a privacy breach of millions of Facebook users’ personal data that became a major corporate and political scandal.
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Ex-Cambridge Analytica Staff To Reveal Over 100,000 New Documents: Report
The Cambridge Analytica scandal is far from over. New explosive details leaked by a whistleblower shows that the extent of the rot is far deeper than previously thought.
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Cambridge Analytica Deceived Facebook Users On Data: US Probe
US regulators concluded Friday that British consultancy Cambridge Analytica -- at the center of a massive scandal on hijacking of Facebook data -- deceived users of the social network about how it collected and handled their personal information.
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Facebook Agrees to Pay Meagre UK Fine Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has faced questioning by US and EU lawmakers over how the political consultancy obtained the personal data of 87 million Facebook users from a researcher.
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Facebook Agrees To Pay Fine Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal To Britain
Facebook on Wednesday agreed to pay a 500,000 pounds fine for breaches of data protection law related to the harvesting of data by consultancy Cambridge Analytica, Britain's information regulator said.
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Did Facebook Data Help Trump? Netflix's The Great Hack Documentary Explores Scandal
The new documentary The Great Hack captures how Facebook's cavalier handling of user data in the Cambridge Analytica scandal posed a threat to democracy.
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Cambridge Analytica Scandal: US Judge Denies Facebook's Request to Dismiss Lawsuit Over Improper Sharing of User Data
A US judge denied Facebook's request to dismiss a lawsuit by the Washington, D.C. attorney general over the social media giant's improper sharing of 87 million users' data with Cambridge Analytica.
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Facebook Faces Fresh Probe for 'Covering Up' Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Facebook has been denying for long that it was aware of data harvesting of nearly 87 million users by the British political consultancy firm.
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Mark Zuckerberg Sees "Progress" For Facebook After A Controversial 2018
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said Friday the world's biggest social network has "fundamentally" changed to focus on securing its systems against manipulation and misinformation.
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Facebook Shares Drop as Data Privacy Fallout Spreads
Investors are concerned about snowballing legal and regulatory efforts over data use polices that have upset many customers and could carry significant penalties and costs.
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Facebook Sued By Top US Lawyer Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Nine months after a whistleblower revealed that Facebook had allowed outsiders to improperly access personal information about millions of its users, the social media giant faced its first major rebuke from regulators in the United States - a lawsuit filed by the attorney general of the District of Columbia.
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Facebook Researcher Tied to Cambridge Analytica Quits
A Facebook spokesperson declined to explain when or why the researcher, Joseph Chancellor, had left the company.
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Facebook Suspends US-Based Analytics Firm Over Data Concerns
After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook has now suspended Boston-based data analytics company Crimson Hexagon over concerns that it harvested users' data.
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Meta Investors Appeal to Revive Cambridge Analytica Fraud Case
Meta Platforms investors formally asked a US appeals court to revive a proposed class action accusing the Facebook parent of concealing a serious privacy breach that let a political consulting firm harvest users' personal information. The request came during oral arguments on Wednesday before the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ...
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Meta Said to Settle Cambridge Analytica Scandal Case for $725 Million
Facebook owner Meta 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 revela...
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Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Sued by District of Columbia Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal
The District of Columbia on Monday reportedly sued Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, seeking to hold him personally liable for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a privacy breach of millions of Facebook users’ personal data that became a major corporate and political scandal.
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Ex-Cambridge Analytica Staff To Reveal Over 100,000 New Documents: Report
The Cambridge Analytica scandal is far from over. New explosive details leaked by a whistleblower shows that the extent of the rot is far deeper than previously thought.
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Cambridge Analytica Deceived Facebook Users On Data: US Probe
US regulators concluded Friday that British consultancy Cambridge Analytica -- at the center of a massive scandal on hijacking of Facebook data -- deceived users of the social network about how it collected and handled their personal information.
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Facebook Agrees to Pay Meagre UK Fine Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has faced questioning by US and EU lawmakers over how the political consultancy obtained the personal data of 87 million Facebook users from a researcher.
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Facebook Agrees To Pay Fine Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal To Britain
Facebook on Wednesday agreed to pay a 500,000 pounds fine for breaches of data protection law related to the harvesting of data by consultancy Cambridge Analytica, Britain's information regulator said.
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Did Facebook Data Help Trump? Netflix's The Great Hack Documentary Explores Scandal
The new documentary The Great Hack captures how Facebook's cavalier handling of user data in the Cambridge Analytica scandal posed a threat to democracy.
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Cambridge Analytica Scandal: US Judge Denies Facebook's Request to Dismiss Lawsuit Over Improper Sharing of User Data
A US judge denied Facebook's request to dismiss a lawsuit by the Washington, D.C. attorney general over the social media giant's improper sharing of 87 million users' data with Cambridge Analytica.
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Facebook Faces Fresh Probe for 'Covering Up' Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Facebook has been denying for long that it was aware of data harvesting of nearly 87 million users by the British political consultancy firm.
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Mark Zuckerberg Sees "Progress" For Facebook After A Controversial 2018
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said Friday the world's biggest social network has "fundamentally" changed to focus on securing its systems against manipulation and misinformation.
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Facebook Shares Drop as Data Privacy Fallout Spreads
Investors are concerned about snowballing legal and regulatory efforts over data use polices that have upset many customers and could carry significant penalties and costs.
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Facebook Sued By Top US Lawyer Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Nine months after a whistleblower revealed that Facebook had allowed outsiders to improperly access personal information about millions of its users, the social media giant faced its first major rebuke from regulators in the United States - a lawsuit filed by the attorney general of the District of Columbia.
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Facebook Researcher Tied to Cambridge Analytica Quits
A Facebook spokesperson declined to explain when or why the researcher, Joseph Chancellor, had left the company.
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Facebook Suspends US-Based Analytics Firm Over Data Concerns
After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook has now suspended Boston-based data analytics company Crimson Hexagon over concerns that it harvested users' data.
