ON OCTOBER 27, 2012, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote an email to his then-director of product development. For years, Facebook had allowed third-party apps to access data on their users’ unwitting friends, and Zuckerberg was considering whether giving away all that information was risky. In his
IT’S NO SECRET that companies like Facebook and Google scoop up personal information to serve users ads. But if anything became clear this year, it’s that consumers have a lot more to learn about what happens to their data online—how it’s gathered, who gets to look at it, and
SCL Elections, formerly known as Cambridge Analytica, has been fined £15,000 by a British court for failing to comply with an enforcement notice from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office — a criminal offense. The firm pleaded guilty at Hendon Magistrate’s Court, Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
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