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Facebook: Would It Help If We Traded Less User Info With Huge Data Brokers?
Facebook’s big data-sharing scandal apology tour continued on Wednesday with the announcement the site would be cancelling its “Partner Categories” advertising section, in which the site partners with third-party data brokers to aggregate even more monetizable information about users.
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Facebook Unresponsive As Reports Say Zuckerberg Will Testify
After two weeks of watching his company take a beating for doling out the most intimate details of people’s lives like lollies, Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly resigned himself to testify before US Congress. But so far, Facebook isn’t saying anything about it publicly.
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Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Floats Wild Nairobi Poison Plot
The Canadian whistleblower at the centre of recent international furore over misuse of Facebook data told UK lawmakers today that one of his predecessors may have been “poisoned” a half decade ago.
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Illinois’ Cook County Sues Facebook And Cambridge Analytica For Alleged Fraud
Illinois’ Cook County, which includes Chicago and surrounding areas, is joining the legal fight against Facebook and Cambridge Analytica over the misuse of data scraped from social media profiles, claiming that both companies violated state fraud law.