Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, has agreed to pay USD 725 million to settle a class action lawsuit stemming from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal. The lawsuit accused ...

Facebook owner Meta Platforms on Friday urged a U.S. appeals court to uphold a $725 million nationwide class action ...

Sheryl Sandberg, former Meta COO, is facing legal issues connected to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, including allegations of using personal email accounts and deleting critical emails. Sanctioned ...

Congress could ban the ByteDance-owned app on fears it could harvest user data and hand it straight over to the USA's main economic rival, China. CFP National Championship 2025: Date, start time ...

Meta talked to officials about moving its incorporation from Delaware to Texas, the Wall Street Journal reports.

There are plenty of popular apps which collect your data, and often this is sold on to brokers for profit. Because a lot of ...

Finally, shareholders are suing Meta for withholding information around the Cambridge Analytica data-harvesting scandal which broke in 2018.

“Certainly after the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke. Harvesting our data was really the Facebook business model, and when tied to political microtargeting, and selling such data to overseas ...

Cambridge Analytica was a British political consulting firm that ... Then came Facebook, which began to harvest our data in even more intimate detail. These were the first tech companies to have ...

But is privacy related to social networking, wearable technology, data breaches, and targeted advertising miscues — not to mention the Cambridge Analytica incident or the Snowden disclosures?