Cambridge Analytica

Meta Platforms investors formally asked a US appeals court to revive a proposed class action accusing the Facebook parent of concealing a serious privacy breach that let a political consulting firm harvest users' personal information. The request came during oral arguments on Wednesday before the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ...

Facebook's parent company Meta has agreed to pay $725 million (nearly Rs. 5,990 crore) to settle a class action lawsuit that accused the company of sharing users' personal data with Cambridge Analytica, The Verge reported. The lawsuit was filed in 2018.

Facebook owner Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing the social media giant of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users' personal information. The proposed settlement, which was disclosed in a court filing late on Thursday, would resolve a long-running lawsuit prompted by revela...

The proposed settlement would resolve a long-running lawsuit prompted by revelations in 2018 that Facebook had allowed the British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica to access data for as many as 87 million users.

Mark Zuckerberg considered saying in a 2017 speech that Facebook was looking into "organizations like Cambridge Analytica," according to details from a deposition of him by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Meta has settled the lawsuit claiming that Facebook has illegally shared user data with the research firm Cambridge Analytica. The settlement comes after it was revealed a month ago that Mark Zuckerberg, the Chief Executive Officer of Meta, would have to sit for a six hours long questioning by the plaintiff’s lawyers.

Meta Platforms Inc's Facebook has in-principle agreed to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court seeking damages for letting third parties including Cambridge Analytica access the private data of users, a court filing showed.

TikTok collects vast amounts of personal data from its users, like other social media companies, in order to serve them ads. However, unlike other apps, TikTok’s corporate roots extend to authoritarian China, which carries implications for users of the app. From censorship to privacy issues, here are the risks of apps like TikTok collecting your ...

The District of Columbia on Monday reportedly sued Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, seeking to hold him personally liable for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a privacy breach of millions of Facebook users’ personal data that became a major corporate and political scandal.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was named personally in a Washington lawsuit Monday alleging he played a direct role in decisions that set the stage for the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.

Facebook shareholders have reportedly filed two new lawsuits in Delaware alleging that the company overpaid the US FTC fine by $5 billion just to shield Mark Zuckerberg from personal liability in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica probe.

Foundation star Jared Harris notes similarities between Hari Seldon and his Chernobyl character Valery Legasov, and how Cambridge Analytica shows us why Seldon’s psychohistory theory is possible. Foundation release date is September 24 on Apple TV+.

It's tough to pinpoint exactly where things with Facebook and Apple went wrong, but like so many relationships gone sour, the first signs of real trouble looked like petty sniping. In March 2018, Facebook Inc. was in the midst of a scandal involving political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica and was facing serious questions about its stewardship...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a case against UK-based political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica for the alleged illegal harvesting of personal data of 5.62 lakh Indian Facebook users. The agency has also named Global Science Research (GSRL), another company based out of that country, in the same case.

US regulators on Friday welcomed a "historic" $5 billion settlement with Facebook over data privacy as the social network said it was already implementing the provisions of the deal.

Meta Platforms investors formally asked a US appeals court to revive a proposed class action accusing the Facebook parent of concealing a serious privacy breach that let a political consulting firm harvest users' personal information. The request came during oral arguments on Wednesday before the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ...

Facebook's parent company Meta has agreed to pay $725 million (nearly Rs. 5,990 crore) to settle a class action lawsuit that accused the company of sharing users' personal data with Cambridge Analytica, The Verge reported. The lawsuit was filed in 2018.

Facebook owner Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing the social media giant of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users' personal information. The proposed settlement, which was disclosed in a court filing late on Thursday, would resolve a long-running lawsuit prompted by revela...

The proposed settlement would resolve a long-running lawsuit prompted by revelations in 2018 that Facebook had allowed the British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica to access data for as many as 87 million users.

Mark Zuckerberg considered saying in a 2017 speech that Facebook was looking into "organizations like Cambridge Analytica," according to details from a deposition of him by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Meta has settled the lawsuit claiming that Facebook has illegally shared user data with the research firm Cambridge Analytica. The settlement comes after it was revealed a month ago that Mark Zuckerberg, the Chief Executive Officer of Meta, would have to sit for a six hours long questioning by the plaintiff’s lawyers.

Meta Platforms Inc's Facebook has in-principle agreed to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court seeking damages for letting third parties including Cambridge Analytica access the private data of users, a court filing showed.

TikTok collects vast amounts of personal data from its users, like other social media companies, in order to serve them ads. However, unlike other apps, TikTok’s corporate roots extend to authoritarian China, which carries implications for users of the app. From censorship to privacy issues, here are the risks of apps like TikTok collecting your ...

The District of Columbia on Monday reportedly sued Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, seeking to hold him personally liable for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a privacy breach of millions of Facebook users’ personal data that became a major corporate and political scandal.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was named personally in a Washington lawsuit Monday alleging he played a direct role in decisions that set the stage for the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.

Facebook shareholders have reportedly filed two new lawsuits in Delaware alleging that the company overpaid the US FTC fine by $5 billion just to shield Mark Zuckerberg from personal liability in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica probe.

Foundation star Jared Harris notes similarities between Hari Seldon and his Chernobyl character Valery Legasov, and how Cambridge Analytica shows us why Seldon’s psychohistory theory is possible. Foundation release date is September 24 on Apple TV+.

It's tough to pinpoint exactly where things with Facebook and Apple went wrong, but like so many relationships gone sour, the first signs of real trouble looked like petty sniping. In March 2018, Facebook Inc. was in the midst of a scandal involving political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica and was facing serious questions about its stewardship...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a case against UK-based political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica for the alleged illegal harvesting of personal data of 5.62 lakh Indian Facebook users. The agency has also named Global Science Research (GSRL), another company based out of that country, in the same case.

US regulators on Friday welcomed a "historic" $5 billion settlement with Facebook over data privacy as the social network said it was already implementing the provisions of the deal.