A law firm on Monday filed another lawsuit against Facebook for failing to protect consumer data. The suit, following a similar case last week, was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose. It accuses Facebook of “unjust enrichment and violation of privacy and consumer-protection laws when it …
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Facebook last week said it would support efforts to regulate political ads. Now US senators are urging Alphabet and Twitter to do the same. The Honest Ads Act is a senate bill that would require tech companies to disclose how political ads were targeted and how much they cost. It’s sponsored by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota, and …
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Facebook estimates that the data of no less than 87 million people was obtained by Cambridge Analytica in what’s become quite the scandal. But now it has gone to another level. Tinder has been taken from us. Kind of. In an attempt to prevent another Analytica-gate, Facebook on Wednesday implemented new measures to regulate the data third-party apps can use and …
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Amid increased pressure in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has released a new tool designed to help you more easily manage the third party apps that have access to your data. Previously if you wanted to delete third-party apps from your Facebook page you had to delete them one by one. But now it’s possible to delete …
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The Australian government has confirmed it will open an official investigation into the Facebook data scandal that saw data from 87 million Facebook user accounts shared with Cambridge Analytica. While the majority of users affected by the Cambridge Analytica fiasco were based in the US, Australia was the 10th worst country hit, according to figures released Thursday by Facebook. It’s …
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Facebook is building a certification tool that will require advertisers confirm they received user permission before using emails to target advertising on the huge social network. The tool, reported earlier by TechCrunch, will be part of Facebook’s Custom Audiences program, which allows advertisers to upload lists of hashed customer data, such as email addresses. Facebook then matches that data against its …
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The leaked Facebook memo, entitled “The Ugly” and penned by longtime exec Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, has upped the creepy quotient on the world’s largest social network, even as it wrangles with the current scandal about its data dealings and the work of voter-profiling firm Cambridge Analytica. Bosworth — who joined CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s team in 2006, ran Facebook’s ad business, …
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First, it was Cambridge Analytica. Now, it’s the ugly truth memo. What’s next? If you are finally ready to quit Facebook once and for all, you should take your data — all your posts and messages, photos and videos, friends and groups and so on — with you before you go. Thankfully, Facebook makes it easy to download your data. …
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Mark Zuckerberg turned down an opportunity to come to London to give evidence in Parliament about Facebook’s part in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Zuckerberg said last week he would be happy to testify in front of Congress in the US. But the Facebook CEO will not be doing the same in the UK, according to a letter the company sent …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg breaks his silence and apologizes over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Best Buy decides to stop ordering new Huawei phones. Etsy’s new CEO talks about his vision for the specialty e-retailer. Now playing: Watch this: Is Facebook’s apology over Cambridge Analytica enough?… 4:32 The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis …
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