Facebook data scandal

Mark Zuckerberg lost nearly $17 billion in under two hours – Here's why

The plummeting stock price of wiped out about $150 billion in Facebook's market capitalization in under two hours.

Jul 26, 2018, 11:02 AM IST

Not just Facebook, Twitter also sold data to Cambridge Analytica researcher

Twitter, however, said it had banned GSR and Cambridge Analytica from buying data or running adverts on the website and that no private data had been accessed.

Apr 30, 2018, 17:49 PM IST

Facebook data scandal: Mark Zuckerberg says sorry to Britons with newspaper apology ads

Zuckerberg said that there was a quiz developed by a university researcher "that leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014".

Mar 25, 2018, 16:49 PM IST

Data Scandal: Beware! Facebook sells your data, says Steve Bannon

He claimed that neither he nor Cambridge Analytica had anything to do with "dirty tricks" in the use of information harvested from Facebook.

Mar 23, 2018, 18:34 PM IST

Data scandal: Here's how you can change your Facebook settings

Tech companies can and should do more to protect users, including giving users far more control over what data is collected and how that data is used.

Mar 23, 2018, 16:55 PM IST

Israel opens probe into Facebook after data scandal

Following a scandal over the hijacking of personal data from millions of the social network's users.

Mar 22, 2018, 23:51 PM IST

Facebook took years to clamp down on developers' data harvesting: Ex-operations manager

Sandy Parakilas shed fresh light on business practices that are alleged to have enabled Cambridge Analytica to gain unauthorised access to the personal data of tens of millions of US voters.

Mar 22, 2018, 14:04 PM IST