UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said this week that Facebook and other entities involved in the Cambridge Analytica scandal had disrespected the personal data of British voters and called on CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear before MPs. Denham expressed in her investigation that she thought it...
Facebook recently wrote to U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in the Northern District of California seeking the dismissal of a class-action privacy complaint over its role in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. The tech firm reasoned that while the incident drew public attention to the...
India’s Central Bureau of Investigation had reportedly written to Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research regarding the illegal collection of data from Indian users on the platform. The investigative agency asked the organizations to provide the details of data collection exercise that they have...
Facebook announced this week that it has banned another third-party quiz app called “myPersonality” for sharing user information with researchers and companies “with only limited protections in place”. The app, which was linked to the University of Cambridge’s Psychometric Centre, had reportedly been active even before...
Facebook disclosed this week to the Indonesian government that the data of around one million users in Indonesia on their platform had not been improperly used by Cambridge Analytica. This was in response to the pressure being applied by the Indonesian government on Facebook to produce...
Stephen Satterfield, a privacy policy director at Facebook told EU lawmakers this week that they have not found any indications that EU user data had been shared with Cambridge Analytica. Facebook vice president of policy solutions Richard Allan added that said that the Cambridge Analytica researcher...
UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham told the civil liberties committee of the EU institution last Monday that privacy missteps similar to Facebook’s recent scandal may be happening in other online platforms. Denham, who is leading the investigations into the Cambridge Analytica scandal, said that there is...
Earlier this week, the chair of the House of Representatives’ information and communications technology committee said that it will be conducting an investigation into Facebook’s breach which involved the data of around 1.18 million Filipino users. According to Tarlac Rep. Victor Yap who filed House Resolution...
It was reported last Thursday that the political consultancy firm in the middle of the Facebook privacy scandal had filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the United States. Cambridge Analytica had been accused of misusing the data of up to 87 million Facebook users since 2014....
European Parliament president Antonio Tajani said last Wednesday that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has accepted their invitation and will be meeting with them in Brussels around next week. Zuckerberg is expected to answer questions from European leaders on the misuse of millions of users’ data by...