The Cambridge
Analytica case it raised the discussion about the power of social networks and the possibility of their abuse for the conditioning of political activities.
securityaffairs.co - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday commented the Cambridge
Analytica case, he admitted the company made mistakes.
Finally, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday commented the Cambridge
Analytica case, he admitted that his company has failed in protecting its users, but he pointed out that the company has already adopted necessary measures to prevent future abuses.
securityaffairs.co - After Cambridge
Analytica case, Facebook announced security improvements to prevent future interference with elections...
Zuckerberg also did not address claims made by his former platform operations manager Sandy Parakilas that data harvesting from Facebook was a regular occurrence, and not a one - off as in the Cambridge
Analytica case.
Facebook revealed on Wednesday that 87 million users have been affected by the Cambridge
Analytica case, much more than 50 million users...
securityaffairs.co - Facebook revealed on Wednesday that 87 million users have been affected by the Cambridge
Analytica case, much more than 50 million users initially thought.
(Zuckerberg provided yet another blog post apology, which contains a useful, if somewhat self - serving, chronology of the Cambridge
Analytica case.)
Still, even if a third - party app says it collects minimal information about users, it could violate Facebook's rules and pass that information along to others anyway, which is what seems to have happened in the Cambridge
Analytica case.
As of this afternoon, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's (OPC) is most focused on the Facebook Cambridge
Analytica case.
Some experts say that the Cambridge
Analytica case actually shows that the social media giant violated the subsequent consent decree that resolved that helped settle that matter.
In that case, the FTC complained that Facebook «deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public,» which sounds startlingly similar to the details of the Cambridge
Analytica case.
The Cambridge
Analytica case is a prime example where it violated Facebook's policy, but once the data has left the building it is hard to know what happens to it.
The silver lining to the Cambridge
Analytica case is that more people are recognising that we pay for online services with not only our own privacy, but that of our friends, family and colleagues.
The Facebook and Cambridge
Analytica case however fell under its remit.
Not exact matches
The FTC is probing how data from 50 million Facebook users was obtained by Cambridge
Analytica, a British political consulting firm that consulted on President Donald Trump's campaign, and whether the transfer violated pledges the company made to settle an earlier privacy
case.
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.
Facebook users almost certainly had no idea that the information gleaned about them and their friends through a personality - quiz app could be used to try to influence an election, as was said to the
case in the Cambridge
Analytica scandal.
Taking your personal feelings and data out of the equation, the Facebook - Cambridge
Analytica crisis has been a textbook PR
case study in what not to do.
The
case dates back to 2015, long before Facebook became mired in controversy over revelations that millions of its users» private information fell into the hands of British consulting firm Cambridge
Analytica.
As the Cambridge
Analytica scandal has shown, even ordinary consumers have been unwittingly conscripted for this purpose — in this
case, with no pay at all.
In addition to the Massachusetts AG's suit, Edelson is working on a contingency basis for Illinois regulators pressing data privacy
cases against Uber and Facebook and Cambridge
Analytica.
This seems to be a
case of misuse of data [by Cambridge
Analytica].
The most recent intrusion — the Cambridge
Analytica data scandal that has engulfed Facebook and may have played a role in the Brexit referendum and the election of US president Donald Trump — is a
case in point.
And that's a question and answer that we might apply directly to the present
case of Cambridge
Analytica and Facebook data.
And in the specific
case of Facebook, the FTC is currently investigating the company over the Cambridge
Analytica scandal.
For one, there hasn't been a whistleblower like there was in the
case of Cambridge
Analytica.
Cambridge
Analytica put a page about Tillis» race on its website, touting its work and listing the race as a
case study.
In a statement to BuzzFeed, which broke the story after receiving information from Norweigian nonprofit Sintef,
Case said: «It's being conflated with Cambridge
Analytica.
In that
case, the 270,000 people who downloaded an app authorized an academic working with Cambridge
Analytica to collect their data.
Facebook «relied on the word of Kogan and Cambridge
Analytica to delete the data, rather than conducting an audit, which they had a right to do in the
case of Kogan.
In the
case of Cambridge
Analytica, Facebook says a researcher from Cambridge University, Aleksandr Kogan, used a personality quiz app in 2014 to gain access to the data of 270,000 Facebook users, including their friends and «likes.»
When questioned regarding this issue, Zuckerberg said: «When we heard back from Cambridge
Analytica that they had told us that they weren't using the data and deleted it, we considered it a closed
case.
if Cambridge
Analytica or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which
case personal data held by it about its registered supporters will be one of the transferred assets.
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He said, in this
case, Cambridge
Analytica broke the rules and Facebook took action to remedy the problem when it became apparent.
Water quality assessment and apportionment of pollution sources of Gomti river (India) using multivariate statistical techniques — a
case studyKP Singh, A Malik, S Sinha —
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However, in the
case of Cambridge
Analytica, data collection took place surreptitiously and without the consent of the data subjects who were initially rumoured to be 50 million Facebook users, but has since ballooned to 87 million Facebook users.
Our monthly legal eDiscovery news round - up features ongoing legal fallout from the Cambridge
Analytica revelations, the imminent impact of the GDPR, recent
cases of note, XDD's April articles on social media authentication and standard contractual clause
cases, and a new XDD webinar on proportionality.
The company's security chief, Bryce
Case, told Axios that he felt Grindr was being «unfairly... singled out» in light of Facebook's Cambridge
Analytica scandal and said that the company's practices didn't deviate from the industry norm.
if Cambridge
Analytica or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which
case personal data held by it about its registered supporters will be one of the transferred assets.
In the
case of Cambridge
Analytica, as well as some other
cases, Facebook may have violated that rule.
Yesterday, Facebook said that the data of as many as 87 million people could have been passed to Cambridge
Analytica, the most high - profile
case to have been revealed so far.
The influence that Cambridge
Analytica exerted on the American and European populations by leveraging data obtained from Facebook could embolden China and others to continue development in manipulative AI - driven systems, and the
case could inform their research as to what data is the most influential in controlling the thoughts, actions, and beliefs of a population.
Cambridge
Analytica instead was a hedge against the RNC, in
case it wouldn't share its data.
In the specific
case of Cambridge
Analytica, a third - party app designed to act as a personality quiz collected the data of users who installed the app, as well as identifying information about their friends who they were connected with on Facebook.
In that
case, the 270,000 people who downloaded an app authorized an academic working with Cambridge
Analytica to collect their data.
Facebook «relied on the word of Kogan and Cambridge
Analytica to delete the data, rather than conducting an audit, which they had a right to do in the
case of Kogan.
In most
cases, Cambridge
Analytica appears to be functioning as the type of straightforward microtargeter that Nix considered insufficiently alert to the vagaries of human psychology.
In Cambridge
Analytica's
case, Wylie on Monday accused the firm of going beyond simply serving targeted ads to people on Facebook.