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The machine was a marvel of vision and a monument to its creator’s ego. Jobs’s stubbornness was baked into its very circuits. No cooling fan, because he hated the noise — leading to the nickname “the ...
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 ...
The stench of Cambridge Analytica is still lingering around Facebook, as parent Meta just agreed to pay Australian users AUD $50 million over the scandal.
I now recognize, some six years later, that the Cambridge Analytica scandal galvanized me—but not like it did so many others.
Cambridge Analytica scandal: The key players What links a Cambridge professor, Facebook, an ex-hedge fund boss, a red haired techie, and Donald Trump's former right hand man?
Artificial intelligence A Cambridge Analytica-style scandal for AI is coming Can you imagine a car company putting a new vehicle on the market without built-in safety features?
Facebook’s parent, Meta, has proposed to settle a long-running privacy class action lawsuit in the Northern District of California related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Reuters reported ...
In subsequent Washington Senate hearings into the scandal, Mark Zuckerberg apologized for having failed to check that Cambridge Analytica had deleted the information.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal revealed that one developer, GSR, harvested private data from up to 87 million Facebook users around the world without their knowledge.
The new documentary “The Great Hack” captures how Facebook’s cavalier handling of user data in the Cambridge Analytica scandal posed a threat to democracy.