The Cambridge Analytica scandal. Understanding Facebook’s data privacy debacle. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. In the wake of the 2016 US presidential election, ...

After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal broke in 2018, things got bad enough for Meta (then Facebook) that Mark Zuckerberg had to face Congress to try to explain what had happened. The focus on ...

W hat the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal lacks in relevance it sure makes up for in melodramatic rhetoric. Take Bloomberg, for instance, which reported, “The revelations of the apparent ...

The Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, explained with a simple diagram. A visual of how it all fits together. They’re now shutting down. by Alvin Chang. Updated May 2, 2018, 7:25 PM UTC ...

The penalty follows the UK's data protection watchdog fining Facebook £500,000 ($656,000) earlier this year, following a Cambridge Analytica-related investigation.

How Cambridge Analytica "weaponized" Facebook user data 09:47 "It (GSR) was grandfathered into the old, open policies. That's how they were able to collect so much data.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal, simply put, happened like this: 50 million Facebook users had their data exposed by Facebook to a political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, which worked on the ...

Facebook isn’t just the source of the data Cambridge Analytica used. It’s the reason this sort of data—organized in this way—exists in the first place.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal has been in the headlines for weeks as a melodrama of political intrigue that normally would be a television mini-series. There is the misuse of social media data ...

This situation with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica is just getting worse and worse. For a lot of people, this is a reminder to go in and check out those privacy settings and remove some ...