Sentences with phrase «sketchy election data»

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, fresh off of not apologizing for the social media giant's failure to prevent sketchy election data firm Cambridge Analytica from partnering with a similarly sketchy app to allegedly scrape 50 million users» profile data, briefly emerged from his gilded panic room on Wednesday evening for...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, fresh off of not apologizing for the social media giant's failure to prevent sketchy election data firm Cambridge Analytica from partnering with a similarly sketchy app to allegedly scrape 50 million users» profile data, briefly emerged from his gilded panic room on Wednesday evening for an interview with CNN's Laurie Segall in which he largely repeated his PR department's talking points.

Not exact matches

Facebook has booted AggregateIQ, the Canadian election consulting firm that built data tools for sketchy election firm Cambridge Analytica, this week on the grounds that it may have received some of the extensive data on 87 million Facebook users the latter company received through a partnership with an app.

That's an irresistible target for advertisers and, it turns out, for people who want to do some sketchy things with data and even influence elections.