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

It said this includes his denial the company was supplied data by a firm behind an app that harvested personal details, or worked with Facebook data. Cambridge Analytica denies wrongdoing.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been investigating allegations that political consultancy Cambridge Analytica improperly ... it was designed to harvest not only the user data of the person ...

What the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal lacks in relevance ... In fact, Facebook allowed the Obama campaign to harvest data in the same way that is now generating headlines and handwringing.

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 ...

is known for leaking documents to journalists that showed how Cambridge Analytica harvest the data of millions of Facebook users without their consent, using it to inform targeted political ...

President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign used Cambridge ... Cambridge Analytica. The company purchased the data from an academic who had created a Facebook quiz app that collected personal ...