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»Cambridge Analytica

How Facebook Got Here, From The Data Scandals To The Current Impasse On Political Ads

Over the last year and a half, Facebook has been embroiled in so many controversial issues, it’s hard to keep track: privacy problems, the spread of misinformation, election interference, improperly secured data, antitrust concerns and, most recently, Facebook’s policy on paid political advertising, which is rubbing nearly everyone, including some of Facebook’s own employees, the... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // November 5th, 2019 //
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Facebook Suspends Tens Of Thousands Of Apps In Ongoing Data Misuse Crackdown

Facebook said Friday that it’s suspending “tens of thousands” of apps from its platform for data usage violations. The suspended apps are associated with around 400 developers. The purge is part of Facebook’s continuing investigation into how third-party app developers use Facebook data, sparked by the Cambridge Analytica scandal in March 2018. So far, the... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // September 20th, 2019 //
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Meet the US Academic Who Just Got Cambridge Analytica To Plead Guilty To A Crime

An American associate professor of media design is perhaps not the first person who comes to mind as the driving force behind an effort to test the limits of European data protection law, but there you go. David Carroll, who teaches at the New School’s Parsons School of Design in New York City, is partway... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // January 11th, 2019 //
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Where Facebook Went Wrong In 2018, And Why Advertisers Are Still On Board (For Now)

2018 was the year Facebook’s skeletons really came skittering out of the closet, and the drip, drip, drip of bad news is seemingly endless. On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that Facebook shared more data with more partners than previously disclosed, including contact information, private messages and friend lists. Facebook’s response to the Times... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // December 20th, 2018 //
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Facebook Aims To ‘Put The Face Behind Facebook’ With Privacy Event For Consumers

Facebook is setting up a kiosk in midtown Manhattan to dole out free hot cocoa and privacy advice. (Yes, privacy advice.) At a one-day public pop-up event Thursday in Bryant Park, Facebook reps will answer questions about how people can use their privacy settings and manage their advertising experience on the platform. The event, a... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // December 13th, 2018 //
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How Facebook Got Here, From The Dorm Room To The Data Scandals

Another day, another Facebook blunder, mishap or scandal – or so it’s felt since the Cambridge Analytica storyline started to unfurl in mid-March. But the nonstop headlines and incremental news hits make it easy to lose historical perspective. (As a colleague recently noted with surprise, “Wait, the Cambridge Analytica news only came out five months... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // July 30th, 2018 //
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Crimson Hexagon’s Plight In Five Words: Facebook Doesn’t Want Another Scandal

Getting in bed with Facebook sometimes means waking up alone – and without your wallet. Social analytics platform Crimson Hexagon is experiencing an unpleasant prolonged morning after following a report late last week accusing the company of tapping into public user data for government contracts in possible violation of Facebook’s terms of service. Facebook suspended Crimson... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // July 25th, 2018 //
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Kogan: Cambridge Analytica’s Supposed Data Genius Was Just Hack Work

It’s been a weird four months for Aleksandr Kogan. The 33-year-old went from an obscure research psychologist at Cambridge University to one of the villains at the heart of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Kogan, who testified Tuesday before a Senate Commerce subcommittee, apologized for his role in the controversy, but disputes that the data provided... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // June 20th, 2018 //
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Cambridge Analytica Shuts Down; Oath Reportedly Scans Email For Transaction Data

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. End Of An Error Cambridge Analytica has shut down. “The Company is immediately ceasing all operations and the boards have applied to appoint insolvency practitioners Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP to act as the independent administrator for Cambridge Analytica,” the company said in a statement.... Continue reading »

by AdExchanger // May 3rd, 2018 //
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F8: Some Developers Are Frustrated, But Most Are Far From Mutinous

“This has been an intense year – I can’t believe we’re only four months in.” Mark Zuckerberg kicked off Facebook’s F8 developers conference in San Jose on Tuesday with a joke, and he got a few chuckles from the gathered crowd of 5,000 developers. Facebook’s recent crackdown on API access and data flows in response to... Continue reading »

by Allison Schiff // May 2nd, 2018 //
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