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Cambridge Analytica, whose clients included Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, sought information on Facebook users to build psychological profiles on a large portion of the US electorate. (Photo: AFP)

Cambridge Analytica to shut down following Facebook data scandal

The firm has filed papers to begin insolvency proceedings in UK and will seek bankruptcy protection in federal court in New York.

03 May 2018 8:28 AM

Facebook said it will keep looking into data misuse by Cambridge Analytica even though the firm is closing down. (Photo: AP)

Data firm at center of Facebook privacy scandal will close

Cambridge Analytica blamed “unfairly negative media coverage”, which has driven away all clients and businesses.

03 May 2018 8:20 AM

According to Facebook, data about up to 87 million of its members was harvested by an app and then passed onto the political consultancy.

Cambridge Analytica, Facebook data-harvest firm, to shut

The overwhelmingly bad press generated by the news cycle appears to have been too much for the company.

03 May 2018 6:30 AM

“In 2015, GSR did have one-time API access to a random sample of public tweets from a five-month period from December 2014 to April 2015,” Twitter said in a statement.

Twitter reportedly sold data access to a researcher of Cambridge Analytica

Twitter has confirmed this selling of public data to Bloomberg, stating that the firm has granted access to large-scale public data.

30 Apr 2018 6:10 PM

Facebook advertisers shrug off its privacy scandal

Facebook is the second largest digital publisher in the world, behind Google.

26 Apr 2018 2:41 PM

Facebook's rise in profits, users show resilience after scandals

Facebook Inc (FB.O) shares rose on Wednesday after the social network reported a surprisingly strong 63 per cent rise in profit.

26 Apr 2018 2:39 PM

Alphabet and Twitter have also been invited to testify at the House Judiciary Committee hearing.

Facebook will not testify at US House hearing on social media

The company said that even though it will not appear, it looks forward to a continuing dialogue with members of the committee.

26 Apr 2018 7:58 AM

Centre sends new notice to FB, CA

In its reply to the notice issued by the IT ministry, Cambridge Analytica had earlier this month categorically.

26 Apr 2018 12:37 AM

Information of over 80 million Facebook users was allegedly harvested by data analytics and political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Govt sends second notice to Facebook, CA; seeks response by May 10

Facebook had admitted that nearly 5.62 lakh people in India were potentially affected by incident.

25 Apr 2018 3:53 PM

Christopher Wylie, a former employee of Cambridge Analytica’s parent, also claims that the company has links to the successful campaign to take Britain out of the European Union.

Cambridge Analytica fights back on data scandal

The firm denies using Facebook data while working for Donald Trump's campaign during US presidential election.

25 Apr 2018 8:58 AM

Christopher Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower, departs after meeting with House Judiciary Democrats, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. (Photo: AP)

House Democrats speak to Cambridge Analytica whistleblower

Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees interviewed former Cambridge Analytica employee.

25 Apr 2018 8:25 AM

Cambridge Analytica received the data from a Facebook personality-quiz app that Kogan created.

Researcher in Facebook data breach scandal apologises

Cambridge University researcher Aleksandr Kogan apologised for Facebook data-misuse scandal during an interview.

24 Apr 2018 7:37 AM

The firm was looking to raise as much as $30 million, one of the sources said.

Cambridge Analytica planned to issue digital currency

The firm was looking at using blockchain – the technology underlying digital currencies to help people secure their online data.

18 Apr 2018 11:15 AM

One hundred cardboard cutouts of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stand outside the US Capitol in Washington DC. (Photo: AFP)

Data, democracy and the rise of globalopolies

Data being a fungible commodity, can then be exchanged for a fee, and randomly replicated.

13 Apr 2018 3:38 AM

There are now 2.2 billion (2,200 million) Facebook users around the world, which is a little less than double the population of India, and indicates the influence that it can command. (Photo: AP)

How Facebook, Google and others pose a growing threat to people worldwide

India is arguably Facebook’s most important market, with the nation recently edging out the United States as the company’s biggest user base.

12 Apr 2018 5:59 AM

Union MInister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Congress President Rahul Gandhi should apologise and promise not to manipulate voters and divide the society in future. (Photo: PTI | File)

After Zuckerberg's apology, Ravi Shankar Prasad wants promise from Rahul Gandhi

Ravi Shankar Prasad said Cong President Rahul Gandhi should also apologise for allegedly using leaked data to swing poll results in India.

11 Apr 2018 9:41 PM

On Tuesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took questions for nearly five hours in a US Senate hearing. (Photo: AFP)

Mark Zuckerberg says his own data was shared by Cambridge Analytica

However, Zuckerberg pushed back on congress members' suggestions that users do not have enough control of their data on Facebook.

11 Apr 2018 9:08 PM

UK-based Cambridge Analytica is learnt to have denied using data of Facebook users in India. (Photo: AP)

Cambridge Analytica denies using data of Indians

The government now plans to seek additional clarification from them, the sources said.

11 Apr 2018 7:17 PM

Earlier, Zuckerberg said his company will do everything to ensure fair polling takes place in India and other countries.

Facebook systems do not see messages sent over WhatsApp: Zuckerberg

This confirmation has come as a relief to the messaging app's users, who have been concerned over in the aftermath of data breach scandal.

11 Apr 2018 11:34 AM

“I’ll have my team follow up with you so that way we can have this discussion across the different categories where I think this discussion needs to happen,” Zuckerberg told a joint hearing. (AP Photo)

Zuckerberg resists effort by US senators to commit him to regulation

The 33-year-old Internet mogul managed to deflect any specific promises to support any congressional regulation.

11 Apr 2018 9:26 AM

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