FB data theft: CBI files case against Cambridge Analytica, another firm
The app illegally harvested additional data of FB users and of their friends.
The app illegally harvested additional data of FB users and of their friends.
'Any attempts to undermine the integrity of our service is antithetical to our fundamental rights and undermines the core tenets of freedom of expression, the value upon which our company is based', said Twitter in its official statement.
Dorsey's announcement contrasts Facebook's recent attempts to justify its decisions to exempt posts by politicians from its third-party fact-checking program and to exempt ads by politicians and from a policy banning false or misleading statements in advertising.
Cheeseman and Klaas, who have used neo-colonial stereotyping in this book, would have done better to propose that Indian teams are sent to evaluate elections in the West and the Election Commission of India be taken as an universal standard. But the western viewpoint and propensity to pontificate remain incorrigible
In the biggest-ever security breach after Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook in October admitted that hackers broke into nearly 50 million users’ accounts by stealing their 'access tokens' or digital keys.
The firm had announced early May that it would close down and file for insolvency in Britain and US, after failing to recover from a massive data-harvesting scandal
In a statement posted on its website, Cambridge Analytica said the “siege of media coverage” had driven away all its customers and suppliers
Koum's announcement came soon after US media reported his plans to depart "after clashing with its parent, Facebook, over the popular messaging service's strategy and Facebook's attempts to use its personal data and weaken its encryption"
Twitter sold public data access in 2015 to Aleksandr Kogan, then a researcher with University of Cambridge and his company Global Science Research (GSR)
Data leaks from social media sites have raised the question of curbs on the use of facts.
