How the Facebook / Cambridge
Analytica news affects the way in which consumers view Facebook and the other GAFA companies as potential alternatives to banks;
In the face of the Cambridge
Analytica news, however, this «something for nothing» rhetoric is taking a beating.
Today's announcement follows a series of backlash against Facebook since the Cambridge
Analytica news came to light, with a UK Parliamentary committee calling for CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify, Facebook stock tanking and erasing billions off its market value, and user trust in the company continuing to decline.
Since the whole Cambridge
Analytica news broke, some users have had issues with deleting their accounts in regards to password issues.
The FTC said last week that it would open a new investigation in light of the Cambridge
Analytica news, and Wednesday's revelations are likely to complicate the legal situation, said David Vladeck, a former FTC director of consumer protection who oversaw the 2011 consent decree.
Tuesday Tip: How to Change Your Facebook Settings After the Cambridge
Analytica News This is the first part of a special three part series on digital security by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
This latest announcement follows a number of recent updates to Facebook's advertising platform since the Cambridge
Analytica news broke.
Last weekend's Cambridge
Analytica news — that the company was able to access tens of millions of users» data by paying low - wage workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk to take a Facebook survey, which gave Cambridge Analytica access to Facebook's dossier on each of those turkers» Facebook friends — has hammered home two problems: first...
Fortunately for them, Mark Zuckerberg's belated response to the Cambridge
Analytica news hits the same notes YouTube did a year ago.
Just before the Cambridge
Analytica news hit, Facebook had been promoting its new subscription program, testing it with The Washington Post and other top publishers.
Five days after the Cambridge
Analytica news broke, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally made a public statement about the issue, claiming he had been working to understand exactly what had happened.
The FTC said last week that it would open a new investigation in light of the Cambridge
Analytica news, and Wedneday's revelations are likely to complicate the legal situation, said David Vladeck, a former FTC director of consumer protection who oversaw the 2011 consent decree.
The Cambridge
Analytica news is just the latest crisis for the social networking giant, which has been grappling with its role in the spreading of fake news and ads by Russian trolls, who last month were indicted for interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Even when he was avoiding the press and his own employees at the height of the Cambridge
Analytica news cycle, HuffPost's Ashley Feinberg noted that he was busily liking posts on Facebook, from people such as Spotify CEO Daniel Ek and early Facebook investor (and chairman of Graham Holdings, Slate's parent company) Don Graham.
Since the Cambridge
Analytica news hit headlines, calls for users to ditch the platform have picked up speed.
And US senator Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota and member of the Senate's Judiciary Committee, said on Twitter Saturday that the Cambridge
Analytica news represents a «major breach» that Congress must look at as well.
After the whole Cambridge
Analytica news and getting caught storing call and text logs for Android users who used Messenger, it has now come out that Facebook was secretly deleting messages sent by Mark Zuckerberg and other executives at the company.
Those include a suit from a Facebook shareholder who is seeking class - action status, claiming he and other company shareholders have suffered losses and damages since the Cambridge
Analytica news was first reported, and another from a woman seeking class - action status over Facebook and Cambridge Analytica's alleged improper data collection.
Since the Cambridge
Analytica news broke, many people have reconsidered whether they want to use Facebook at all.
After the Cambridge
Analytica news broke, Facebook froze all new app approvals while it reviewed its system, audited existing apps, and dealt with a public relations crisis.
In the days since the Cambridge
Analytica news came out, the hashtag behind the movement, #deletefacebook, has surfaced a handful of times in Connecticut on Twitter, a competing social media site.
A new study found that 75 percent of users are still as engaged on the platform as they were before the Cambridge
Analytica news.
This latest announcement follows a number of recent updates to Facebook's advertising platform since the Cambridge
Analytica news broke.
Sharing Mark's post addressing the Cambridge
Analytica news.
Following the Cambridge
Analytica news, Facebook paused its app review program, leaving developers wondering about when they would be able to integrate new apps into their own projects.
Last weekend's Cambridge
Analytica news — that the company was able to access tens of millions of users» data by paying low - wage workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk to take a Facebook survey, which gave Cambridge Analytica access to Facebook's dossier on each of those turkers» Facebook friends — has hammered home two problems: first...
Since the Cambridge
Analytica news hit headlines, calls for users to ditch the platform have picked up speed.
It remains to be seen what, if anything, our dysfunctional Congress can muster to break the now entrenched pattern of consumer privacy abuse highlighted by the Cambridge
Analytica news, but that is by no means limited to Facebook.
A range of prominent individuals and brands have hopped on the #DeleteFacebook train since the Cambridge
Analytica news broke a week and a half ago, from Elon Musk to WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton to actor Will Ferrell to Playboy magazine.
Not exact matches
While Mark Zuckerberg testified before the Senate Tuesday in the wake of his company's entanglement with Cambridge
Analytica, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced that the forum - based site had discovered and banned nearly a thousand accounts run by the same Russian trolls that were accused of attempting to sway political opinions on Facebook through politically charged advertising, fake
news, and other posts.
Starting today, Facebook is adding a note at the top of
News Feeds that will let you know if your information was improperly shared with 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.
The social media giant's privacy practices have been under the microscope ever since
news emerged that a U.K. political consultancy called Cambridge
Analytica managed to pull the personal data from 50 million Facebook users.
In March 2018,
news surfaced of a data breach that resulted in data of about 50 million Facebook users getting into the hands of voter - targeting consultancy Cambridge
Analytica.
That reverses some of the company's 15 % in lost valuation since March, when the
news about Cambridge
Analytica first erupted.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced off with a room full of senators on Tuesday in what many believed would be a tough grilling about privacy in the wake of
news that political consulting firm Cambridge
Analytica had obtained data about 87 million Facebook users.
These include the spread of fake
news by Russian trolls and the alleged exploitation of Facebook user data by political consulting firm Cambridge
Analytica to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Moving to habits and other daily activities, Cambridge
Analytica found that Android users were more likely than iPhone owners to seek out local
news.
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.
Facebook's latest trust troubles started with
news that a rogue research firm, Cambridge
Analytica, illegally obtained data on 87 million Facebook users.
Collins told Sky
News that company leaders will «be in for a nasty surprise» if they think shutting Cambridge
Analytica will make it possible to erase the data that prompted the investigation.
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.
Wednesday's
news release announcing the decision lists only Cambridge
Analytica and SCL Elections, not the parent company.
Starting Monday, the 87 million users who might have had their data shared with Cambridge
Analytica will get a detailed message on their
news feeds.
Executives from large technology firms could be called to appear in front of British lawmakers as they continue gathering evidence about fake
news and data practices in the wake of the Facebook and Cambridge
Analytica scandal, a member of parliament (MP) told CNBC Wednesday.
Facebook is down more than 12 % since
news of the Cambridge
Analytica data scandal broke on March 16, and last month was the social media giant's worst in four years.
Perhaps it was an inflated sense of public trust, an attitude of invincibility, or an unwillingness to own up to responsibility that led Zuckerberg, COO Sheryl Sandberg and other Facebook executives to take a painfully long time to formulate a response to the
news that data firm Cambridge
Analytica gained access to millions of its users» data three years ago.
Much of the
news this past week has focused on what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did — or did not do — when he found out that Cambridge
Analytica had gained unauthorized access to information about tens of millions of Facebook users.
The Cambridge
Analytica scandal, sparked last month by
news reports that the political - research firm misappropriated millions of users» data, soon morphed into a full - blown panic over data privacy that sent CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Congress.
There's likely to be lots of talk about virtual reality, augmented reality, video games, and, of course, data security — an issue that Facebook has been tangled up in since
news broke of the Cambridge
Analytica scandal.