Case of New York company’s alleged information collection under guise of academic research echoes Cambridge Analytica scandal
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The personal information of 87 million Facebook users may have been improperly shared with data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, the social media giant has said, as it rolled out a set of new security measures.
By Dylan Curran
The harvesting of our personal details goes far beyond what many of us could imagine. So I braced myself and had a look
Facebook says an overhaul of its privacy tools will make it easier for people to find and edit the personal information the company holds.
Facebook announced Wednesday that it's overhauling its security and privacy settings in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
People are being encouraged to download their Facebook data following concerns about the information the social media giant collects on its users. It seems to include phone calls, text messages and other non-Facebook activity.
A former Facebook employee has told MPs it did not try hard enough to detect when user data was taken or misused by apps built for the site.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has admitted the giant social network "made mistakes" in his first comments since a data scandal engulfed the company.
FACEBOOK boss Mark Zuckerberg has broken his silence at one of the worst possible times for the social media giant.
The company has been accused of using its methods during the US presidential election and the Brexit campaign.
YouTube may give Google a leg up in its battle with Facebook over supremacy in the digital advertising market.
* Facebook protects itself against leaks by tracking down the leakers and firing them.
* One Facebook employee who anonymously spoke with Wired recently asked the reporter to turn off his phone so the company couldn't track their location.
A Facebook engineer has invented a new unit of time called a flick.
Everyone who uses Facebook will have come across some pretty strange posts in their time.
Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to devote 2018 to "fixing" Facebook.
Will demote articles that are factually incorrect
The multi-year agreement will be expanded later to include Facebook Messenger, Universal Music Group said.
Facebook has responded to a former executive who said the social network, and other services like it, was "ripping society apart".
Further instances of social media posts and ads thought to be part of Russian propaganda efforts to influence the last US presidential election and divide its society have been shared with the public.