Facebook Data Breach

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The jury said Groupon’s infringement was willful, allowing IBM to ask a judge to award additional damages.

IBM wins $83 million from Groupon in internet patent fight

A jury in Delaware said Groupon used IBM’s patented e-commerce technology without authorization following a two-week trial.

28 Jul 2018 5:27 PM

Facebook said it has ended 38 of its 52 partnerships and will shut down those remaining by July.

Facebook exhibits data-sharing partnerships, ties to Chinese firms

Facebook said it shared data with the companies in an effort to improve its integrations and user experience across platforms and devices.

01 Jul 2018 4:32 PM

Sheryl Sandberg speaks during the MIT’s 2018 Commencement exercises, Friday, June 8, 2018 in Cambridge, Mass. (David L Ryan/The Boston Globe via AP)

Sheryl Sandberg uses Facebook’s woes as lesson for MIT grads

Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg didn’t shy away from her company’s ongoing privacy scandal in a commencement speech at the MIT.

10 Jun 2018 11:26 AM

Facebook acknowledged the information was given to a “small number” of companies including RBC Capital Markets and Nissan Motor Co., advertisers and other business partners.

Facebook shared user data with select companies

The shared information included user's friends' phone numbers and breakdowns analysing the degrees of separation between people on Facebook.

09 Jun 2018 11:02 AM

Huawei, a company flagged by US intelligence officials as a national security threat, was the latest device maker at the centre of a fresh wave of allegations over Facebook’s handling of private data.

China’s Huawei says it hasn’t collected Facebook user data

Chinese firms Huawei, Lenovo, Oppo and TCL were among numerous handset makers that were given access to Facebook data in a “controlled” way.

07 Jun 2018 5:20 PM

Facebook also had data access deals with Lenovo, OPPO and TCL of China.

Facebook states Chinese phone makers got access to data

Huawei, a Chinese phone maker was able to access Facebook data to get the leading social network's applications to perform on smartphones.

06 Jun 2018 11:07 AM

“The founder and CEO of Facebook have accepted our invitation and will be in Brussels as soon as possible, hopefully already next week,” Antonio Tajani, president of the European Parliament, said in a statement.

Facebook's Zuckerberg to meet European Parliament over privacy

Facebook CEO will answer questions about the improper use of millions of users’ data by a political consultancy.

17 May 2018 7:41 AM

The ride-sharing giant was vilified after the hacking in 2016 of data on 57 million of its riders and drivers, unveiled only in November 2017.

From Yahoo to Uber, major hacks of data

European Union's new data protection rules follow scandals involving lax personal data protection procedures.

15 May 2018 11:46 AM

Cambridge Analytica advised US President Donald Trump’s election campaign, building psychographic profiles of the electorate to help micro-target voters with advertising in key swing states.

UK watchdog demands Cambridge Analytica to hand over American's personal data

The order comes days after reports that Cambridge Analytica had improperly obtained data on tens of millions of Facebook users.

07 May 2018 7:29 AM

Cambridge Analytica, whose clients included Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, sought information on Facebook users to build psychological profiles on a large portion of the US electorate. (Photo: AFP)

Cambridge Analytica to shut down following Facebook data scandal

The firm has filed papers to begin insolvency proceedings in UK and will seek bankruptcy protection in federal court in New York.

03 May 2018 8:28 AM

Zuckerberg might touch on Facebook’s year of privacy scandals, congressional testimony, Russia investigations and apologies.

Facebook developer conference kicks off amid scandal

The Facebook CEO will kick off F8, the company’s annual conference for software developers.

01 May 2018 7:53 PM

Facebook dispatched the unassuming engineer to London despite a previous request for Zuckerberg to appear.

UK lawmakers demand Facebook CEO to appear before them

The committee asked Zuckerberg to appear on May 24 to give testimony to the European Parliament.

27 Apr 2018 7:23 AM

Alphabet and Twitter have also been invited to testify at the House Judiciary Committee hearing.

Facebook will not testify at US House hearing on social media

The company said that even though it will not appear, it looks forward to a continuing dialogue with members of the committee.

26 Apr 2018 7:58 AM

Christopher Wylie, a former employee of Cambridge Analytica’s parent, also claims that the company has links to the successful campaign to take Britain out of the European Union.

Cambridge Analytica fights back on data scandal

The firm denies using Facebook data while working for Donald Trump's campaign during US presidential election.

25 Apr 2018 8:58 AM

Christopher Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower, departs after meeting with House Judiciary Democrats, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. (Photo: AP)

House Democrats speak to Cambridge Analytica whistleblower

Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees interviewed former Cambridge Analytica employee.

25 Apr 2018 8:25 AM

Facebook already banned most of these actions on its previous “community standards” page, which sketched out the company’s standards in broad strokes.

Facebook puts out it's detailed guidelines

The social network is publishing detailed guidelines to what does and doesn’t belong on its service — 27 pages worth of them, in fact.

25 Apr 2018 7:39 AM

Cambridge Analytica received the data from a Facebook personality-quiz app that Kogan created.

Researcher in Facebook data breach scandal apologises

Cambridge University researcher Aleksandr Kogan apologised for Facebook data-misuse scandal during an interview.

24 Apr 2018 7:37 AM

The competition commission is expected to publish its preliminary report in December, with the final report due in mid-2019.

Facebook ignores Australia media calls for regulation

Australian media groups, like their peers worldwide, are losing circulation and advertising revenues to digital competitors.

23 Apr 2018 2:58 PM

The meeting mirrors the appearance of Facebook’s Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg before a US Congressional joint hearing on April 10-11 over the scandal engulfing the world’s largest social network.

German legislators to grill Facebook manager on data privacy

Lawmakers in the Bundestag lower house of parliament will grill Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s vice president for global public policy.

20 Apr 2018 8:46 AM

On Tuesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took questions for nearly five hours in a US Senate hearing. (Photo: AFP)

Mark Zuckerberg says his own data was shared by Cambridge Analytica

However, Zuckerberg pushed back on congress members' suggestions that users do not have enough control of their data on Facebook.

11 Apr 2018 9:08 PM

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