Facebook Data Breach
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Mark Zuckerberg ‘proud’ of efforts to ‘fix’ Facebook despite scandal-plagued 2018Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook made the platform safer in 2018, without acknowledging the data breaches and privacy concerns that plagued it this year.WorldDec 28, 2018
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Facebook tentatively concludes spammers were behind recent data theft: Wall Street JournalThe people behind the attack that hit 29 million users were a group of Facebook and Instagram spammers that present themselves as a digital marketing company, the Journal reported.TechOct 17, 2018
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Facebook hack: Find out if you were affected, and what it meansAs Facebook hack details slowly emerge, here's how to tell if your account was compromised.TechOct 15, 2018
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Irish data regulator opens Facebook probe that could cost company over $1 billion in finesThe Irish Data Protection Commission said Wednesday that it will look into whether the U.S. social media company complied with European regulations that went into effect earlier this year covering data protection.TechOct 3, 2018
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1 in 4 Facebook users have purged the app from their phones, U.S. survey findsAmericans are changing the way they use Facebook, with more and more young people deleting the app from their phones, according to a new survey.TechSep 5, 2018
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Canada has ‘fallen behind’ in powers to do battle over privacy with tech giants: UK officialThe power made available to the Canadian privacy watchdog have not kept pace with those granted to his counterparts around the world.CanadaMay 10, 2018
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Canadians may have had private Facebook messages shared in data harvesting scandal: officialsCanadians who use Facebook may have had their private messages sent through the platform accessed as part of a massive data harvesting scandal.CanadaApr 19, 2018
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Facebook takes out newspaper ads to apologize for Cambridge Analytica scandalThe ads signed by Mark Zuckerberg said a quiz app built by a Cambridge University researcher leaked Facebook data of millions of people four years ago.TechMar 25, 2018
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Alex Pierson: Social media played a huge role in electing Justin TrudeauChris Wylie, the pink haired data whiz whose mining skills are said to have helped Donald Trump win the White House, was hired, then fired, by the Trudeau Liberals in 2016.Mar 23, 2018
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Facebook data scandal researcher Aleksandr Kogan says he’s just a ‘scapegoat’Facebook has been rocked this week by a whistleblower who said that Cambridge Analytica, a British-based firm hired by Trump for his election campaign, had improperly accessed information on millions of Facebook users to build detailed profiles on American voters.PoliticsMar 21, 2018
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