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British parliament presses Facebook on letting politicians lie in ads – TechCrunch

In yet another letter seeking to pry accountability from Facebook, the chair of a British parliamentary committee has pressed the…
5 min read October 22, 2019
Aleksandr Kogan, Cambridge Analytica, Colin Stretch, DCMS committee, Facebook, Federal Trade Commission, GSR, Joseph Chancellor, Mark Zuckerberg, online disinformation, Privacy, Senate Commerce Committee, Social, The Guardian, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Facebook ignored staff warnings about “sketchy” Cambridge Analytica in September 2015 – TechCrunch

Facebook employees tried to alert the company about the activity of Cambridge Analytica as early as September 2015, per the…
9 min read July 25, 2019
Advertising Tech, App Developers, artificial intelligence, ashkan soltani, business model, Cambridge Analytica, competition law, data protection law, DCMS committee, election law, Europe, Facebook, Federal Trade Commission, GSR, information commissioner's office, Mark Zuckerberg, Mike Schroepfer, Moscow, Policy, Privacy, russia, security, Social, Social Media, social media platforms, United Kingdom, United States

UK parliament calls for antitrust, data abuse probe of Facebook – TechCrunch

A final report by a British parliamentary committee which spent months last year investigating online political disinformation makes very uncomfortable…
16 min read February 18, 2019
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Is Europe closing in on an antitrust fix for surveillance technologists? – TechCrunch

The German Federal Cartel Office’s decision to order Facebook to change how it processes users’ personal data this week is a…
11 min read February 10, 2019
Cambridge Analytica, Damian Collins, data misuse, data protection, DCMS committee, Elizabeth Denham, Europe, European Union, Facebook, fake news, Lawsuit, Mark Zuckerberg, Mike Schroepfer, online disinformation, Privacy, Richard Allan, security, Social, Social Media, social media regulation, United Kingdom

UK parliament seizes cache of internal Facebook documents to further privacy probe – TechCrunch

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg may yet regret underestimating a UK parliamentary committee that’s been investigating the democracy-denting impact of online…
6 min read November 25, 2018
Advertising Tech, Aleksandr Kogan, Alexander Nix, artificial intelligence, Cambridge Analytica, cambridge university, Chris Wylie, computer security, data controller, data protection law, DCMS committee, digital campaigning, Digital Media, Elizabeth Denham, Europe, European Union, Facebook, Germany, Internet harms, Mark Zuckerberg, online disinformation, Policy, political campaigning, Privacy, russia, security, Social, Social Media, social media platforms, terms of service, United Kingdom

Facebook must change and policymakers must act on data, warns UK watchdog – TechCrunch

The UK’s data watchdog has warned that Facebook must overhaul its privacy-hostile business model or risk burning user trust for…
12 min read November 6, 2018
Advertising Tech, Aggregate IQ, Aleksandr Kogan, Alexander Nix, Cambridge Analytica, Chris Wylie, Damian Collins, David Carroll, DCMS committee, Europe, European Union, Experian, Facebook, fake news, Government, Presidential Election, SCL Group, Social, social media analytics, United Kingdom, United States

Cambridge Analytica’s Nix said it licensed ‘millions of data points’ from Acxiom, Experian, Infogroup to target US voters – TechCrunch

The repeat grilling by the U.K. parliament’s DCMS committee today of Alexander Nix, the former CEO of the now ex company…
13 min read June 6, 2018
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Zuckerberg didn’t make any friends in Europe today – TechCrunch

Speaking in front of EU lawmakers today Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg namechecked the GDPR’s core principles of “control, transparency and…
11 min read May 23, 2018