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Facebook isn’t yet over the massive FTC fine that was slapped on the company recently. Now, it appears that the company has been hit by “another” Cambridge Analytica — or at least that what it looks like. The company has banned a marketing company Hyp3r from Instagram’s ad platform because it reportedly exploited a “security […]
In December 2018, the career website Glassdoor released its annual list of the best places to work. On the list, Facebook ranked in seventh place and got a 4.5 award score out of 5. In the previous iteration of the list, the social media company ranked 1st. The report didn’t surprise anyone, thanks to the […]
Is it time to #deletefacebook? Just in case you’re not aware, Facebook isn’t a social networking website. In other words, as Edward Snowden says, it’s a surveillance company that sells your data as well. The recent Cambridge Analytica debacle has reinforced the notion that Facebook could be misused to profile users and sell their data. Just […]
Cambridge Analytica and Facebook have been in the headlines for past one month for all the wrong reasons. Now, as per the latest revelation, Twitter is facing flak for selling data to Cambridge Analytica-linked researcher, Aleksandr Kogan. In a statement to The Telegraph, Twitter has confirmed that Aleksandr Kogan’s commercial enterprise had purchased one-time Twitter API […]
The “Big Four” accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) had been assigned the job of auditing Facebook’s privacy practices every two years by the US Federal Trade Commission. This was done to make sure that Facebook didn’t break the 2011 FTC consent decree and deceive customers. According to a heavily redacted copy of the latest audit published on […]
While numerous concerns had been raised over the uninformed data collection of over 87 million Facebook users, the actual number of people affected may be far more. The CA data breach came to light when the company’s former director of research Christopher Wylie took charge and went into Edward Snowden-mode to break the news. It […]
During the Today Show on NBC, Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg indirectly suggested that the Facebook users who do not wish to share their private information might have to pay for it. She said that the service has an opt-out on different levels but there isn’t a universal ad opt-out. “That would be a paid […]
Facebook has taken upon itself to notify all the 87 million victims of Cambridge Analytica Scandal, whose data may have been leaked by creating a link at the top of their News Feed. Update: In case you haven’t been able to spot the link at the top of your News Feed, you can visit this link and check if your […]
It seems like Facebook’s troubles aren’t going to end any time soon. Another data collecting firm named CubeYou has been suspended by Facebook after CNBC reported the company of CubeYou’s data harvesting activity through quizzes. Reportedly, the data analytics company was slurping millions of users’ personal information through personality quizzes such as ‘You Are What You […]
Facebook’s chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer has now confirmed that Cambridge Analytica had access to data on 87 million users — mostly from the United States. Previous reports had estimated this figure to be around 50 million people, whose data may have been shared with analytics firm. It’s not the first time when the social networking […]
Earlier this week, in an interview with Vox, Mark Zuckerberg tried to answer some hard questions put in front of him. In the same process, he ended telling about the ethnic cleansing issue in Myanmar and how Facebook detected people’s sensational messages sent via Messenger. This sparked some obvious questions regarding Facebook’s Messenger-related data policies. […]
The aftermath of Facebook CA scandal has attracted several comments and criticism from common people and prominent figures alike. Now Richard Stallman, the man behind GNU project and free software movement, has shared his views in a column on The Guardian on restoring privacy through stricter regulations for data accumulation. The American programmer and activist, widely […]
In spite of the claims made by Cambridge Analytica, the data harvested from Facebook users has not been deleted yet. In fact, a substantial portion of the stolen personal information is still being circulated within unknown sources. This startling revelation surfaced in a recent investigation conducted by London’s Channel 4, where they were able to […]
If the Cambridge Analytica story wasn’t enough, Facebook is again under fire for collecting people’s call logs and SMS history for years. Per reports, the said data was discovered by many Android users after they obtained the offline copy of their Facebook data. Earlier, it was said that the company did so without asking the […]
Time has come when many people are having a sudden self-intervention that they should delete their Facebook account forever. First, it was the Cambridge Analytica debacle and then the company’s habit of collecting Android user’s data for years. For many people, this might be enough motivation to quit Facebook. But is it that easy? Especially, when you […]
After the much discussed Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has broken all its ties with the Cambridge University researcher Aleksandr Kogan. In his defense, Kogan has said that he is being scapegoated in the matter and he wasn’t aware that he broke Facebook’s privacy policies. A newer revelation made by The Guardian suggests that his ties with […]
Dark clouds are hovering over Facebook, and their stocks are falling. Now, various American and European federal bodies have started asking how a voter-profiling company managed to get hold of the data of 50 million users. Per a press release on Tuesday, the state of New York has followed the footsteps of Massachusetts that announced an […]
What happens when you own a data firm that has just secured a $15 million funding, and you’ve managed to gain a heavyweight client with the promise of delivering insights related to American voters? You try to push your boundaries and give your best. But, what if your data firm doesn’t have enough data to […]