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Australian Privacy Commissioner vs Facebook: Your 4-Minute Explainer
The Privacy Commissioner vs Facebook case will return to the Federal Court. But what now?
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Facebook’s Political Ad Promises Mostly Miss the Mark, Study Shows
In the years since the Cambridge Analytica scandal revealed how easily Facebook’s political ads could be weaponised by bad actors abroad, the social network has made some major overhauls that, in a perfect world, would keep a scandal like that from happening again. It rolled out an ever-growing library of the ads political parties were…
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Hacker Publishes Phone Numbers and Other Data of 533 Million Facebook Users for Free
If you have a Facebook account, you should probably be keeping your guard up in the near future. A new report states that a hacker has posted the private information, including phone numbers, birthdays, and locations, of more than 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries online for free.
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Australia’s Privacy Watchdog Is Taking Facebook To Federal Court
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has finally lodged proceedings against Facebook almost two years after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The watchdog claims the social media giant seriously and repeatedly failed to comply with Australian privacy law prior to the incident becoming public knowledge.