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Academic at centre of Facebook data scandal gives evidence
For six weeks Cambridge Analytica has been at the centre of a global political storm over how data was harvested from millions of Facebook users. Today for the first time since the scandal broke they allowed questions from the press, two hours after an academic at the centre of the data scandal gave evidence to…
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Culture Secretary Matt Hancock on Facebook: ‘Era in which we ask nicely is over’
The Culture Secretary Matt Hancock announced an extra £15m to help bolster cyber-security amongst Commonwealth nations today. He’s also the minister investigating Facebook’s conduct in the UK following the data harvesting scandal exposed by this programme. We sat down with him and asked whether his threat to bring in extra regulation really had any teeth.
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Cambridge Analytica ‘used Facebook data after being ordered to delete it’
A former senior employee at controversial data firm Cambridge Analytica, Brittany Kaiser, has told MPs that the company continued to use Facebook data after being ordered to delete it. Today her former boss Alexander Nix pulled out of his appearance in front of the same committee tomorrow. She also told MPs that the Brexit campaigner…
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British Facebook users notified about what happened to their data
Mark Zuckerberg’s revelation on Capitol Hill that he had his own data harvested has been echoed across the Atlantic, as British Facebook users are being notified about what happened to their personal details. In London, the Culture Secretary Matt Hancock hauled in Facebook executives to explain the data privacy harvest and what the company was doing…
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Senator Maggie Hassan: ‘Facebook business model isn’t set up to protect privacy’
After their hearing yesterday, we caught up with some of the key US senators involved – one from each party . Both seemed determined to give Mark Zuckerberg the benefit of the doubt and to let Facebook find its own solutions to the various crises engulfing it.
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Andrew Sullivan: ‘Only solution is get off Facebook, it is using you’
Andrew Sullivan, writer-at-large for New York Magazine, discusses Facebook and Paul Ryan.
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg faces second day of questioning
Mark Zuckerberg faced his second day of questioning today in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, his reluctant appearance forced because of revelations first broadcast by this programme, and published in the Observer, that the privacy of 87 million Facebook users had been breached and may have been improperly used by Cambridge Analytica…
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Your Facebook data is out there: SO WHAT?
So what does it mean for you if your online data has or hasn’t been grabbed? What could people do with your profile information? We help you answer some of the key questions in our new explainer series SO WHAT?
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How Facebook users are reacting to data scandal
As well as dealing with increased scrutiny from politicians, Facebook’s public profile has also taken a knock. Calls to delete Facebook and demands for greater regulation have wiped billions off Facebook’s share price, but will it change people’s day to day interaction with the platform ? I found a mixed reaction in Washington to what’s…
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Jessica Lessin on Facebook: ‘On trial is how you govern the internet’
Jessica Lessin, founder and editor-in-chief of the tech news website The Information, discusses Facebook.
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Senator Richard Blumenthal: Facebook ‘have failed to come clean with the American people and the world’
Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat on the Judiciary Committee and seasoned prosecutor, discusses Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and the FBI raids on Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen, which the President has denounced as a disgraceful witch-hunt.
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Digital strategist Matthew McGregor on Facebook: ‘More regulation is inevitable’
Matthew McGregor, a digital strategist who’s worked on several political campaigns, including President Obama’s re-election in 2012, discusses Facebook.
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Facebook reveals data scraping as scandal hits millions more users
Last month we revealed 50 million Facebook profiles could have been harvested by Cambridge Analytica, the political strategists who boasted of helping Donald Trump become president. Now Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that figure could be 87 million, and also – every single user – that is roughly 2.2 billion people – could have…
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Jon Snow visits Facebook HQ to look for answers – but no one wants to talk
Jon Snow visits Facebook HQ here in London looking to get answers regarding the data breach and to ask them about the steps they’re taking to protect people in the UK’s information, but the company appeared to be in a media lock down.
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Has Corbyn deleted his personal Facebook page?
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn appears to have deleted his personal Facebook account as the row about anti-Semitism in the party escalated again. It’s just days since he was accused of belonging to several Facebook groups where some members had posted anti-Semitic content. Our correspondent Helia Ebrahimi is brings us the latest.