December 10, 2019

Facebook users were duped by Cambridge Analytica, FTC rules

Delete the data, and don't do any of that again, the FTC told the data analytics company, which already filed for bankruptcy in 2018.

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April 10, 2018

Another company’s been harvesting Facebook user data

Like Cambridge Analytica, Cubeyou also gobbled users' data with personality quizzes, under the guise of "research."

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April 05, 2018

“Most people on Facebook” have had data scraped by malicious actors

Facebook has disabled the account recovery feature that allowed the scraping of any public profile data

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March 28, 2018

Cambridge Analytica’s secret coding sauce allegedly leaked

The exposed data, available free by registering an email address, shows CA used software developed by AggregateIQ to sway US elections.

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March 28, 2018

FTC goes after Facebook

Time for Facebook to face the music on its data glad-handling in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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March 22, 2018

New whistleblower says Facebook turned a blind eye to covert data harvesting

Sandy Parakilas, formerly responsible for policing data breaches, said ignorance was bliss and assumed to protect Facebook from liability.

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March 19, 2018

Facebook loses control of 50 million users’ data, suspends analytics firm

Facebook has suspended Cambridge Analytica for violating its platform policies.

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