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Facebook has been fined £500,000 ($664,000) in the U.K. after the country's data protection watchdog concluded that its data-sharing scandal broke the law, making it as the social network's first...
Political consulting group Cambridge Analytica used Russian researchers and shared data with companies linked to Russian intelligence, a whistleblower told a congressional hearing on interference...
TechRepublic's Dan Patterson appeared on CBSN to discuss whether Facebook's new Clear History feature can help regain users' confidence.
TechRepublic's Dan Patterson explains how Facebook's new privacy features work, and why the tools might not actually protect users.
Leading the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: Cambridge Analytica shuts down, saying it's lost all of its customers, and Australia's Commonwealth Bank spots a big, bad potential data breach.</
Data Analysis Firm at Heart of Facebook ScandalCambridge Analytica, the data analysis firm that reportedly received data on up to 87 million Facebook users without their consent, shut down on...
The admission is part of an effort to explain how unlike Facebook Twitter is.
Dr Aleksandr Kogan, the academic behind the personality quiz app that harvested Facebook information of 80+ million people, has also had access to a random sample of public tweets posted during a...
Twitter is the latest company to face backlash for how it handles data privacy after disclosing that it sold data access to a Cambridge Analytica-linked researcher.
Twitter sold Aleksandr Kogan's firm Global Science Research access to large-scale public data in 2015.