Facebook owner Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $725-million, or about R12.4-billion, to resolve a class-action lawsuit.
Browsing: Cambridge Analytica
The US District of Columbia is suing Mark Zuckerberg for his alleged role in the data breach that allowed Cambridge Analytica to target Facebook users during the 2016 election.
Facebook said it unknowingly gave outside developers access to private user information shared within some groups on its main social network.
The president of Microsoft said the age of self-regulation is over for the technology industry, but new rules imposed on the sector must be not introduced for the sake of restricting big companies.
Facebook has confirmed that hundreds of millions of user phone numbers were left on an unprotected server.
Apple boss Tim Cook has taken aim at invisible data brokers who trade users’ personal data, as the iPhone maker continues to distance itself from rivals on the issue of privacy.
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg is planning to speak up more in 2019 in a bid to address some of the anxieties around social media.
Facebook, already facing scrutiny from US lawmakers and regulators over how a political consulting firm obtained personal information from users of the social network, is now being probed by more federal
Facebook is disputing a New York Times report about how it shares data with device makers from Apple and Amazon to Samsung. They’re privy to Facebook users’ information but it’s nothing like the access that led to the
Facebook is suspending 200 apps that may have leaked private data on large groups of users without their consent, as it looks for potential breaches similar to the one involving Cambridge Analytica. Since it was discovered earlier