Back in 2014, not long after Kogan obtained the data he would later pass on to Cambridge Analytica, Facebook made changes to limit the amount of data apps were able to access and added a requirement ...

We don't know exactly which information Cambridge Analytica obtained from as many as 50 million Facebook users. But Facebook's old API, the software tool that gives third party apps access to ...

Australia’s information watchdog is suing Facebook for more than 300,000 alleged privacy breaches involving the This is Your Digital Life app used by Cambridge Analytica for political profiling, The ...

Emails show Eric Schmidt's daughter, Sophie Schmidt, suggested that Cambridge Analytica's parent company ... the work of the cambridge prof as a mobile app that connects to facebook?" ...

Facebook has a new tool for people worried about apps accessing their data. In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the company has quietly rolled out a tool that allows you log out ...

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