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Revealed: Cambridge Analytica data on thousands of Facebook users still not deleted
Facebook said it took steps to ensure harvested campaign data had been “destroyed”. But Channel 4 News has now discovered that data on thousands of people in Colorado is still circulating – and Channel 4 News has been to speak to those whose privacy was breached.
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Fallout from Facebook investigation felt across world
The fallout from this programme’s investigation into Facebook data harvesting is continuing to be felt across the globe. Lindsey Hilsum is in Kenya, where the strategy firm that harvested the data, Cambridge Analytica, boasted of helping swing last year’s presidential election. And Siobhan Kennedy is the United States, where Facebook’s shares have plunged a further…
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Facebook apologises to users in UK and US newspaper adverts
Facebook is attempting to put a disastrous week behind it by apologising for its part in the data harvesting scandal The social media giant has taken out full page advertisements in almost a dozen major US and UK newspapers. But it’s a different experience on the ground outside Facebooks headquarters in California as our Business…
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Silicon Valley backlash over Facebook
This past week, Facebook has seen billions wiped from its share value after revelations, including some made by this programme that 50 million profiles were used by Cambridge Analytica to influence elections around the world. Now, if the internet has a home it is Silicon Valley. But even there where so many make their living…
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Guardian columnist Poppy Noor on Cambridge Analytica and Facebook
Back now to our top story on the data scandal. The data harvesting began after Cambridge University Professor Alexsandr Kogan developed an app to conduct personality tests of Facebook users. Guardian columnist Poppy Noor was a psychology student at the university in 2011. She worked on developing a personality test that Mr Kogan then reproduced,…
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Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker on Facebook: ‘We’re not surprised there are problems, but surprised about scale’
Internet company Mozilla, best known for its Firefox web browser, has become the first internet giant to suspend its advertising on Facebook following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. They’ve said that “when Facebook takes stronger action on sharing customers’ data, specifically strengthening its default privacy settings for apps”, they’ll consider returning. Executive Chairwoman Mitchell Baker is…
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Zuckerberg addresses Facebook staff on data scandal
Nowhere is the fallout of the data scandal felt more keenly than at Facebook headquarters. Mark Zuckerberg is due to speak to staff in California about his firm’s involvement. The social media giant has seen billions wiped from its value after it emerged the personal details of up to 50 million users were used by…
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‘The Facebook apology is a good door opener to fixing the problem’: Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee
Sheila Jackson Lee, who is a member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, joins Kylie Morris to discuss the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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Facebook exec responds to Cambridge Analytica Scandal
In New York today, there was another mea culpa moment from a Facebook boss. Their head of news partnerships was talking about fake news but started with addressing the very real crisis of trust in the platform itself. Paraic O’Brien was there and reports from New York.
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Mark Zuckerberg admits Facebook made mistakes
Toni Cowan-Brown, from NationBuilder, a software company used by political campaigns across the world, including the Presidential campaign of Donald Trump, and Jamie Bartlett, author of ‘The People vs Tech: How the Internet is Killing Democracy’, respond to Mark Zuckerberg’s statement.
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Martha Lane Fox on Cambridge Analytica and Facebook: ‘There is a crisis of trust’
Baroness Martha Lane Fox, a crossbench peer who chairs Doteveryone, which campaigns for more effective legislation online. She also sits on the board of the social media giant Twitter.
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Legislators demand answers from Facebook’s Zuckerberg
Legislators on both sides of the Atlantic have given Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg a stark message: you need to tell us why you let Cambridge Analytica harvest data from tens of millions of Facebook users. And you need to do it in person. Not just lawyers. Not spokespeople. You, Mr Zuckerberg. The demands came as…
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EU Commissioner Vera Jourova on Cambridge Analytica USA: ‘Case shows failure by Facebook’
What can be done about ensuring the legitimacy of elections and protecting citizens’ privacy? Vera Jourova, the EU’s Justice and Data Protection Commissioner, is in Washington to discuss these matters with her US counterparts.
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Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham on Cambridge Analytica and Facebook: ‘We should all be shocked and deeply concerned’
Elizabeth Denham, the Information Commissioner, discusses Cambridge Analytica and Facebook.
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Damian Collins MP on Cambridge Analytica and Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg ‘should give evidence to MPs’
Damian Collins, the Conservative chair of the culture committee, and journalist Issie Lapowsky, who writes about tech for Wired magazine, discuss Cambridge Analytica and Facebook.