Sentences with phrase «analytica after»

Last week, Facebook said it had suspended the accounts of Cambridge Analytica after Dr. Aleksandr Kogan, a professor at the University of Cambridge, sent these firms data from Facebook users that was harvested through an application that used Facebook Login.

Last Friday, Facebook suspended Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and its political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica after it emerged that it was using data shared by a developer who was supposed to use it only for his own app.

On Tuesday, the UK information commissioner said she was seeking an urgent court warrant to enter the London headquarters of the elections consultancy Cambridge Analytica after the firm was caught in an undercover sting and accused of using honey traps and running fake news campaigns.

Cruz's campaign quit using Cambridge Analytica after a primary in South Carolina, the Times reported.

And on Friday, Facebook suspended Cambridge Analytica after receiving reports the firm didn't delete data from an app developer, despite saying it had done so, potentially giving it access to massive amounts of user information to allegedly tailor misinformation campaigns.

LONDON — British lawmakers still want to question Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg over how millions of users» details got into the hands of political consultancy Cambridge Analytica after the company said it would send another executive to appear before them.

Yesterday Facebook admitted as many as 87 million users in total could have had their personal info shared with Cambridge Analytica after 270k people downloaded the quiz app on its platform.

Elizabeth Denham, the head of Britain's Information Commission, is seeking a warrant to search the offices of consultancy Cambridge Analytica after a whistleblower revealed it had harvested the private information of millions of people to support Trump's 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.

Last week saw an uprise against Facebook on the back of its alleged involvement with Cambridge Analytica after a whistle - blower uncovered private data harvesting reveals on Channel 4.

Yesterday Facebook admitted as many as 87 million users in total could have had their personal info shared with Cambridge Analytica after 270k people downloaded the quiz app on its platform.

Not exact matches

More from the New York Times: Tech thinks it has a fix for the problems it created: blockchain After Cambridge Analytica, privacy experts get to say «I told you so» Russia and Venezuela's plan to sidestep sanctions: virtual currencies

After Trump won the White House in 2016, in part with the firms help, Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix went to more clients to pitch his services, the Times reported last year.

May 2 (Reuters)- Cambridge Analytica, the firm embroiled in a controversy over its handling of Facebook Inc user data, and its British parent SCL Elections Ltd, are shutting down immediately after suffering a sharp drop in business, the company said on Wednesday.

Cambridge Analytica is being scrutinized for the methods it used during the 2016 presidential election, after executives with the British data firm boasted about their ability to covertly target voters, entrap politicians, and launch propaganda campaigns.

Apart from its proximity to the Cambridge Analytica debacle, Facebook's announcement came just after someone alleged that a Facebook employee had been stalking women online by using their privileged access to the company's systems.

Cambridge Analytica, the firm embroiled in a controversy over its handling of Facebook Inc user data, and its British parent SCL Elections Ltd, are shutting down immediately after suffering a sharp drop in business, the company said on Wednesday.

The social media giant is coming off a rough weekend, shedding nearly 7 percent Monday after reports of a massive mishandling of data by conservative research firm Cambridge Analytica.

After news that political research firm Cambridge Analytica was able to gain access to unauthorized user data through the guise of a personality quiz, Facebook found itself in hot water.

In Facebook's case, CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally responded, after days of delay, to the Cambridge Analytica data crisis facing the company, appearing on media platforms to explain that mistakes were made, apologize, and vow to set things right.

The app cut ties with Cambridge Analytica in Mexico after the British company was accused by a whistleblower of improperly accessing data to target US and British voters in recent elections.

The social media company has come under fire after it was disclosed that political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked...

Sandberg's post came less than a week after The New York Times and The Observer of London reported that Cambridge Analytica, a political data company created by Stephen Bannon and Robert Mercer, gathered users» Facebook data and claimed it could influence the behavior of American voters.

Zuckerberg noted that Cambridge Analytica wasn't on Facebook at the time, though he quickly added after a break that his team advised him that they did become an advertiser later in 2015.

After news stories broke that a firm named Cambridge Analytica misused the data of 50 million people, the social network has been on the defensive.

The company is facing questions from lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic about how it handles personal user data after a pair of weekend reports by The Observer newspaper in the U.K. and The New York Times alleged research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

It wasn't until after the Observer and the Times published blockbuster stories on Cambridge Analytica's actions this past weekend that Facebook finally took real action, suspending Cambridge's account and demanding to audit its servers.

Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg is set for a second day of grilling by Congress Wednesday after spending five hours fielded questions from Congress the day before on the recent Cambridge Analytica data leak raised questions on the social media network's privacy and how users» data is handled.

Mark Zuckerberg, now $ 6 billion poorer after the Cambridge Analytica scandal caused Facebook's stock to tank, still hasn't come out and said anything about the affair.

It all started after the dramatic revelations involving a quiz app, Cambridge Analytica, and the 2016 Trump election.

The update sent Facebook's stock plummeting once again, after already facing a rough week in the wake of news that users» information was passed on to Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that has claimed to have helped get President Donald Trump elected.

Prior to Zuckerberg's testimony — the first time he has testified in person before Congress — Facebook alerted 87 million users that their information was shared after data was misused and eventually found its way to research firm Cambridge Analytica.

The company has been under pressure after March media reports revealed that a researcher sold Facebook user data to an outside firm, Cambridge Analytica, which has been associated with President Donald Trump's campaign.

After the recent Cambridge Analytica controversy, which involved a political consultancy misappropriating and misusing people's data in an attempt to influence the 2016 presidential election, Facebook has come under intense fire.

After reports surfaced that Cambridge Analytica still had that data, the company claimed it deleted it while suspending then - CEO Nix.

Schroepfer said Thursday that Facebook did not notify the U.K.'s data protection watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), after it learned of the sharing of data with Cambridge Analytica.

Shares of Facebook cratered as much as 6 percent Monday after the Federal Trade Commission announced it is investigating the company's data practices in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica leak of 50 million users» information.

Schroepfer said that Facebook did not notify the U.K.'s data protection watchdog after it learned of the sharing of data with Cambridge Analytica.

On Wednesday, after weeks of tumult, the controversial data firm Cambridge Analytica announced it's shutting down, and will soon be filing for bankruptcy.

The offices of Cambridge Analytica (CA) in central London, after it was announced that Britain's information commissioner Elizabeth Denham is pursuing a warrant to search Cambridge Analytica's computer servers, Tuesday March 20, 2018.

The company has been on the defensive after reports that political data firm Cambridge Analytica obtained personal data from as many as 87 million Facebook users without their permission.

Over the weekend, after news broke that Cambridge Analytica had harvested data on as many as 50 million Facebook users, Facebook's communications team encouraged Mr. Stamos to tweet in defense of the company, but only after it asked to approve Mr. Stamos's tweets, according to two people briefed on the incident.

While Martineau is definitely justified in her skepticism of any privacy policy that Facebook rolls out after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the unlocking feature is one that other dating apps should adopt and improve on.

After Cambridge Analytica, the company used its F8 conference to reassure app developers that it still loves them.

Two days after that story was published, The Washington Post looked at Cruz's use of Cambridge Analytica and its tools.

Calls for new digital privacy rights in American law have increased after disclosures that the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica obtained data on more than 87 million Facebook users from quizzes that were supposed to be for academic research.

Cambridge Analytica suspended CEO Alexander Nix in March pending an investigation after Nix boasted of various unsavory services to an undercover reporter for Britain's Channel 4 News.

The earnings report followed weeks of tumult for Facebook, after a controversy erupted last month when The New York Times and other news outlets reported that millions of Facebook users» private information had been harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a political firm with ties to the Trump campaign.

Schroepfer also confirmed this agreement was signed with Kogan in June 2016, and said the «core commitments» were to confirm the deletion of data from himself and three others Kogan had passed it to: Former Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix; Wylie, for a company he had set up after leaving Cambridge Analytica; and Dr Michael Inzlicht from the Toronto Laboratory for Social Neuroscience (Kogan mentioned to the committee earlier this week he had also passed some of the Facebook data to a fellow academic in Canada).

«I started Facebook, and at the end of the day I'm responsible for what happens on our platform» Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted after days of the public and government officials waiting for him to speak up about the Cambridge Analytica scandal since it broke Friday.

The Facebook CEO has come out of hiding after the Cambridge Analytica scandal shaved tens of billions of dollars from his company's market cap and sent countless users to delete their profiles.