data scandal

Facebook Lets Users Prevent Targeted Advertising With New Tool
Facebook Lets Users Prevent Targeted Advertising With New Tool
August 20, 2019  |  Facebook

Facebook announced it has launched a new privacy tool so users can prevent their information from being sent to the site for targeted advertising. The...

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Marriott: Data Breach Hits 500M Starwood Guests
Marriott: Data Breach Hits 500M Starwood Guests
November 30, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

In what may be among the largest data breaches in history, Marriott International said Friday morning (Nov. 30) that as many as 500 million guests’...

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Facebook Hit With Fine In The UK Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Facebook Hit With Fine In The UK Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal
July 11, 2018  |  Facebook

Facebook was hit with a $660,000 fine, the maximum allowed, by the British Information Commissioner’s Office over its data scandal with now-defunct political consulting firm...

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SEC, FBI Investigating Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal
SEC, FBI Investigating Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal
July 03, 2018  |  Facebook

Facebook’s data scandal, in which the now defunct political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica accessed the data on 87 million users without their consent, is getting further...

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Facebook Fires An Engineer For Boasting About His Data Access
Facebook Fires An Engineer For Boasting About His Data Access
May 03, 2018  |  Facebook

Facebook, reeling from a data scandal with Cambridge Analytica, fired an employee Thursday (May 3) for boasting that he can access the data of its...

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Cambridge Analytica Shutting Down In Wake Of Facebook Data Scandal
Cambridge Analytica Shutting Down In Wake Of Facebook Data Scandal
May 02, 2018  |  Facebook

Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm that worked on President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and has been embroiled in a data scandal with Facebook, is...

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Professor That Gathered Facebook Data For Cambridge Analytica Is Sorry
Professor That Gathered Facebook Data For Cambridge Analytica Is Sorry
April 23, 2018  |  Facebook

Aleksandr Kogan, the professor who collected information on millions of Facebook users for Cambridge Analytica, doesn’t think he did anything wrong but regrets his role...

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Netflix’s Hastings Says Tech Companies Are Trying To Grow Up
Netflix’s Hastings Says Tech Companies Are Trying To Grow Up
April 16, 2018  |  Facebook

Reed Hastings, the chief executive of Netflix and Facebook board member, said over the weekend that Facebook and other social media companies are “trying to...

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Facebook Backs Legislation That Would Reveal Political Ad Buyers
Facebook Backs Legislation That Would Reveal Political Ad Buyers
April 09, 2018  |  Facebook

Facebook offered up legislation late last week that would require social media companies to reveal the buyers of online political campaign ads as it tries...

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