Facebook Boots Yet Another Company's Account for Extensive Ties to Cambridge Analytica
After AggregateIQ was publicly linked to Cambridge Analytica via multiple news reports, Facebook has chosen to suspend its accounts.
After AggregateIQ was publicly linked to Cambridge Analytica via multiple news reports, Facebook has chosen to suspend its accounts.
You'll get one of two messages this afternoon, one if you're in the clear and another if you're one of the million Brits caught up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Facebook is hoping ID verification and more transparent paid ads will help put an end to fake pages running political ad campaigns across the platform.
Much like its other recent announcements, this feature has apparently been in development since long before the Cambridge Analytica scandal. It has nothing to do with all the recent bad publicity. Honest.
All it took for Facebook to consider its users more was a massive scandal and the invasion of a few billion people's privacy.
We now know that Mark Zuckerberg has the power to reach into every single Facebook inbox and delete messages that he’s sent.
They're now telling the public it should just assume that “most” of the 2.2 billion Facebook users have probably had their public data scraped.
All it took was the company being embroiled in a cataclysmic data-sharing scandal.
It looks like fact-checkers tasked with weeding out bullshit are largely dissatisfied with how things are going down.
Whether or not US Congress manages to pry any more out of Zuckerberg, at least we all get to watch him sweat.
But for noble reasons! Honest!
Contrary to a recent Reuters report, new controls for privacy settings required by European law will roll out globally.
This newly revealed figure represents a 74 per cent increase in the reported number of users affected by Cambridge Analytica’s data gathering.
Facebook doesn't appear to be scaling back its data harvesting, but it does seem to be more open about which data it's tracking and why.
If you don't want to delete Facebook altogether, here's how to remove third-party app permissions.
