The United States Supreme Court dismissed on Friday a lawsuit by Meta Platforms Inc.'s shareholders regarding Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal from 2018. Facebook asked the court to dismiss the class action lawsuit, which was previously greenlit by a lower court.The plaintiffs argued...
Facebook has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit arising from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to a court filing. The scandal was made public in 2018 and accused the social media platform of allowing the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica to collect user data without their...
District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine announced on Monday that he is suing Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg for his role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Racine stated his office has "extensive evidence" that Zuckerberg was personally involved in failures that led to his social...
Brazil’s Justice Ministry stated on Monday that the United States technology company Facebook has to pay a 6.6 million real (approx. $1.6 million) fine for exposing user data. The ministry added it fined Facebook over users' data misuse in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The Facebook-Cambridge...
Social media giant Facebook Inc. must pay a £500,000 fine for breaching data protection laws regarding the data-harvesting by political consulting company Cambridge Analytica Ltd. back in 2018, the British Information Commissioner's Office said on Wednesday. At first, Facebook appealed the...
Facebook announced on Friday that it suspended "tens of thousands" of apps in efforts that first started in March 2018 as an answer to the Cambridge Analytica incident. The company said its App Developer Investigation found that the questionable apps were created by 400 different...
New documents released by Facebook on Friday appear to suggest the social media giant knew about issues with Cambridge Analytica as early as September 2015.
The internal communications mention concerns regarding the company that used Facebook users' private data create psychological...
Three persons in the five-member Federal Trade Commission voted for the proposed settlement with Facebook Inc., the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, quoting sources with knowledge of the matter. The two officials from the Democratic Party were said to be against the deal ending the process...
Canada's Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) said on Thursday that American tech giant Facebook violated the country's privacy laws regarding the Cambridge Analytica scandal, calling findings of its probe into the social media platform's practices "troubling." Canada's privacy watchdog added...
A parliamentary committee in the United Kingdom released a report after an 18-month probe into Facebook Inc.'s practices, calling the company "digital gangsters" for its privacy and competition law breaches. The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee found that last year's...
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