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John Beagle ![]() Voice Official ![]() ![]() Joined: Nov 21 2000 Location: Monroe, Ohio Status: Offline Points: 19569 |
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![]() Where's Zuck? Facebook CEO silent as data harvesting scandal unfolds Amid calls for investigation and a #DeleteFacebook campaign, the company releases an official statement but its figurehead keeps quiet The chief executive of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has remained silent over the more than 48 hours since the Observer revealed the harvesting of 50 million users’ personal data, even as his company is buffeted by mounting calls for investigation and regulation, falling stock prices and a social media campaign to #DeleteFacebook. Facebook’s shares slid 6.77% on Monday following the news, knocking $36bn off the company’s valuation as investors worried about the consequences of the revelations. Zuckerberg owns 16% of the company and personally saw his fortune fall $5.5bn to $69bn, according to Forbes’ live tracker of the world’s wealthiest people. Cambridge Analytica boasts of dirty tricks to swing elections Read more The embattled social media company announced on Monday that it will engage a digital forensics firm to conduct an audit of Cambridge Analytica to determine whether or not the firm still has copies of the data in question. The Observer reported this weekend that a company called Global Science Research (GSR) harvested tens of millions of Facebook profiles and sold the data to Cambridge Analytica. The New York Times reported on Saturday that Cambridge Analytica still possesses “most or all” of the harvested data. Cambridge Analytica has denied knowing that the data was obtained improperly. “If this data still exists, it would be a grave violation of Facebook’s policies and an unacceptable violation of trust and the commitments these groups made,” Facebook said in a statement. The engagement of the digital forensics firm Stroz Friedberg is unlikely to assuage officials in the US or UK, where lawmakers have issued calls for Zuckerberg to testify about the data breach. Representatives of Stroz Friedberg were at Cambridge Analytica’s office in London on Monday evening when the UK Information Commissioner’s Office asked them to leave so the authorities could pursue its own investigation, Facebook said hours after the first announcement. |
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John Beagle ![]() Voice Official ![]() ![]() Joined: Nov 21 2000 Location: Monroe, Ohio Status: Offline Points: 19569 |
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'They were on our side': Obama campaign director reveals Facebook ALLOWED them to mine American users' profiles in 2012 because they were supportive of the Democrats -Carol Davidsen, who worked as the media director at Obama for America, claimed Obama campaign mined millions of people's information from Facebook -She said that Facebook was surprised at the ease with which they were able to 'suck out the whole social graph' -But the firm never tried to stop them when they realized what was doing, and even told them they'd made a special exception for them -They 'were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn't have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side,' she tweeted -Davidsen said that she felt the project was 'creepy' - 'even though we played by the rules, and didn't do anything I felt was ugly, with the data' -Davidsen posted this in the wake of the uproar over Cambridge Analytica, and their mining of information for the Trump campaign Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
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John Beagle, take time to watch this. This is how both Republican and Democrat voters were duped. I believe this is very good journalism by U.K. Channel 4. Here’s the link.
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