Tag: Cambridge Analytica

Tech Talk: Critics take aim at Facebook's 'microtargeting'

Facebook’s practice of “mictrotargeting” — in which ad buyers select audiences based on such details as a user’s location, political leanings and interests — is…

Tech Talk: Facebook under more scrutiny over data sharing

Facebook said this week  it is facing an expansion of federal investigations into its sharing of user data with the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica…

Tech Talk: One-fifth of Delaware’s population may have had Facebook data exposed

Delaware Attorney General Matt Denn said 902 Facebook users in Delaware installed an app that allowed Global Science Research to access their personal information without…

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Tech Talk: Zuckerberg promises to 'keep building'

In an unapologetic address delivered May 1 in San Jose, California, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised that his company will build its way out of…

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Tech Talk: Facebook didn't read terms and conditions for data-gathering app

Facebook told British lawmakers Thursday it never read the terms and conditions for the app that allowed Cambridge Analytica to access the personal information of…