Tag: Cambridge Analytica

The two foreign firms attempted to manipulate Nigeria’s presidential election to help then-president Goodluck Jonathan win re-election.

Twitter The ban means more. It means that a government, which is currently battling unemployment at 33 per cent, doesn’t ...

Facebook was hit by the privacy scandal in mid-March.

The company maintains its innocence but says it would shut down notwithstanding.

The 33-year-old internet billionaire appeared before U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee.

“The profits are all based on the user’s info, but the users get none of the profits back.”

“We didn’t take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake."

Facebook said 70.6 million people affected were based in the U.S.

This number is up from a previous news media estimate of more than 50 million.

The opposition party says it did no wrong.

The organisation reportedly worked for against the then candidate Muhammadu Buhari.

Christopher Wylie, who worked for Cambridge Analytica, alleged that the data was used to build profiles on American voters.

"We have a responsibility to protect your information. If we can’t, we don’t deserve it,” Facebook said in the advertisement.

The investigation is coming a day after Cambridge Analytica, a British consulting company, was accused of harvesting data of Facebook ...

Cambridge Analytica is facing global outrage over misuse of personal data of more than 50 million Facebook users.

Facebook shares closed nearly 7.0 per cent on Monday.