The Australian Information Commissioner accused Meta of violating privacy laws by disclosing personal ... broader Cambridge Analytica controversy, which involved the unauthorized harvesting ...

It used that information for highly targeted political ads on Facebook. A former Cambridge Analytica employee, Christopher Wylie, blew the whistle, saying: "We exploited Facebook to harvest ...

However, as suggested by The Great Hack, Cambridge Analytica was quicker than most to recognise the potential profit in harvesting personal data. Indeed, the company appealed to clients by ...

Cambridge Analytica's chief executive officer Alexander Nix. His firm recently found itself in the spotlight for misrepresenting itself and harvesting data from millions of Facebook users to aid ...

UK-based Cambridge Analytica was accused of playing a key role in the 2014 breach of 87 million Facebook users’ personal data ... American voters by harvesting 50 million Facebook profiles ...

6 takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg's Senate testimony on Facebook's data breaches The scandal involving Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook data to help Donald Trump’s campaign win the 2016 US ...

When whistle blower Christopher Wylie was asked earlier this year to sum up the story of Cambridge Analytica in a ... to protect its citizens’ personal information. The greatest damage, however ...