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FTC slaps Facebook with long-awaited $5 billion fine for privacy violations

Anticipated for months, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted today to fine Facebook a record $5 billion for apparent violations of a [familiar with the proceeding] that required the company to better protect user privacy. This is according to reports…

LMWS Asia

July 15, 2019

Social Media

Facebook bans first app since Cambridge Analytica, myPersonality, and suspends hundreds more

[ad_1] [ad_1] [ed] that it had banned the app myPersonality for improper data controls and suspended hundreds more. So far this is only the second app to be banned as a result of the company’s large-scale audit begun in March;…

LMWS Asia

August 23, 2018

Social Media

Anyone could download Cambridge researchers’ 4-million-user Facebook data set for years

[ad_1] A data set of more than 3 million [ad_1] users and a variety of their personal details collected by Cambridge researchers was available for anyone to download for some four years, [IF YOU ARE A STUDENT PLEASE HAVE YOU…

LMWS Asia

May 15, 2018

Social Media

Australia latest to open probe into Facebook data scandal

[ad_1] Australia’s [ad_1] watchdog has opened an investigation into Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal.Yesterday [ad_2] revealed that more users than previously thought could have had their personal information passed to the company back in…

LMWS Asia

April 5, 2018