Facebook privacy scandal whistleblower Christopher Wylie told a Senate panel last Wednesday that former White House adviser Steve Bannon sought to use the information harvested by Cambridge Analytica to start a "culture war" in the US to create “enduring change” in American politics. When questioned by...
It was revealed last week that the personal details of another 3 million Facebook users had been exposed by a rogue app called “myPersonality”. The quiz app is said to have collected highly personal information, including the results of psychological tests, which were uploaded to...
Addressing a House of Commons Committee tasked with probing the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal, UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said that powers granted to the Canadian privacy watchdog to investigate tech giants have become inadequate compared to its counterparts around the world. It was noted that Canadian...
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office ordered Cambridge Analytica this week to hand over the data it holds on a US academic David Carroll, threatening it with an unlimited fine for a criminal offence if it does not comply. According to data privacy activists, the move sets...
It was reported this week that Ontario-based law firm Siskinds LLP had filed a class action lawsuit against Facebook for unlawful invasion of privacy caused by its involvement in the scandal with Cambridge Analytica. The complainants are seeking $62,216,100 CAD in damages plus an additional $1,000...
British data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica has announced this week that it will be shutting down amid the privacy scandal involving US tech giant Facebook. The embattled UK firm said that it had been a victim of unfounded accusations and vilified for activities that are not...
It was reported this week that Twitter had allegedly sold data to a company run by Aleksandr Kogan, a researcher associated with Cambridge Analytica, back in 2015. Through his company, Global Science Research, Kogan was said to have bought data including tweets, location data, photos, profile...
It was revealed this week that Facebook, in its quarterly report had warned investors that there may still be more incidents similar to the one involving Cambridge Analytica. The social network also warned that they may receive news about other undesirable third parties accessing Facebook data...
It was reported last Friday that Hamburg’s Data Protection Commissioner, Johannes Caspar, had reportedly filed a non-compliance procedure against Facebook in relation to the alleged data abuse involving Cambridge Analytica. The case could potentially penalize Facebook up to $370,000, which is said to be an insignificant...
An assessment which PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP had previously submitted to the FTC surfaced in a report by the Wall Street Journal report last Thursday. It revealed that the auditing firm had cleared Facebook’s privacy practices during the period when Cambridge Analytica had been able to scrape...