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Are you ready? This is all the data Facebook and Google have on you (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 03/28/2018 - 11:23Investigators complete seven-hour Cambridge Analytica HQ search (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 03/25/2018 - 11:37Commentary: The Facebook scandal isn’t just about privacy. Your economic future is on the line (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 03/23/2018 - 14:25Fortnite shoots to the top of teenagers' most-wanted games list (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 03/23/2018 - 11:23Mozilla 'presses pause' on Facebook ads over data-mining claims (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 03/22/2018 - 11:03'Utterly horrifying': ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 03/20/2018 - 12:10
50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach
Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump’s election team and the winning Brexit campaign, harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters, in one of the tech giant’s biggest ever data breaches, and used them to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box.
'They'll squash you like a bug': how Silicon Valley keeps a lid on leakers (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 03/16/2018 - 10:54UK: WhatsApp sharing user data with Facebook would be illegal
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the United Kingdom’s data protection watchdog, has concluded that WhatsApp’s sharing of user data with its parent company Facebook would have been illegal. The messaging app was forced to pause sharing of personal data with Facebook in November 2016, after the ICO said it had cause for concern. The ICO opened a full investigation into the matter in August that year.