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Facebook Gets Hit With Four Lawsuits Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal (sfgate.com)
Facebook has had a terrible week. Since it was revealed that political data firm Cambridge Analytica obtained information about 50 million Facebook users, the social media company has been in damage control mode, apologizing for its mistakes and conducting forensic audits to determine exactly what happened. SFGate reports today that Facebook "has been hit with four lawsuits in federal court in San Francisco and San Jose thus far this week." From the report: One lawsuit was filed by a Facebook user who claims the Menlo Park company acted with "absolute disregard" for her personal information after allegedly representing that it wouldn't disclose the data without permission or notice. That lawsuit, filed by Lauren Price of Maryland in San Jose on Tuesday, seeks to be a class action on behalf of up to 50 million people whose data was allegedly collected from Facebook by London-based Cambridge Analytica. The lawsuit says that during the 2016 election, Price was "frequently targeted with political ads while using Facebook." It seeks financial restitution for claims of unfair business practices and negligence. Both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are named as defendants. Cambridge Analytica also announced today that the company will undergo an independent third-party audit to determine whether it still holds any data covertly obtained from Facebook users. "We take the disturbing recent allegations of unethical practices in our non-U.S. political business very seriously," CEO Alexander Tayler writes. "The Board has launched a full and independent investigation into SCL Elections' past practices, and its findings will be shared publicly."
UPDATE: Eighteen enforcement officers have entered the Cambridge Analytica headquarters in London's West End to search the premises after the data watchdog was granted a warrant to examine its records, reports The Guardian.
UPDATE: Eighteen enforcement officers have entered the Cambridge Analytica headquarters in London's West End to search the premises after the data watchdog was granted a warrant to examine its records, reports The Guardian.
It was fine when Obama was mining facebook, but now worthy of being drawn and quartered.
If it wasn't for double standards, the left would have no standards at all.
they've now had days to destroy/remove data from the premises. Reportedly, employees have been seen carrying boxes out of their London Headquarters after a judge was reluctant to issue a warrant immediately. Anything gathered from that location at least will likely be worthless. Smacks of a major cover-up/ass covering.
Time for Wikileaks to get their feed on.
Give a hand, not a hand-out.
Obama didn't have Russians on his team violating Facebook terms of use. Obama't collude with the Russian government's hacking and and dusruption of our election. Which is treason.
But, you knew that already.
The sheeple have finally figured out FB's business model, FB is running for the hills figuring the average sheeple has an IQ south of 100, yet being idiots, the sheeple are finally thinking FB is fucking them over big time.
// been warning friend/acquaintances for years about this
/// my reward? fuck all. suxs being the prophet of doom when doom shows up
//// Kids decided the way to keep up with the grandkids was via FB
//// Still no FB account, see them this weekend, should be interesting
/ never had a FB account
Prime example of Cambridge Analytica consumer.
Obama asked for users' consent. Cambridge Analytica bought data from a professor, which violated the TOS. They also messed with many other elections, bragged about bribery and corruption.
Trump is much less horrible? As a human being, a husband or a politician? Because it's false regardless and I hope I don't have to list all the reasons. Now I am thinking you have graduated from Trump University.
I have never met a Trumpster that exhibits anything close to sanity or fairness. They have spent so much time in Trumpland that Trump can tell them black is white and they would just believe it. I don't know why I even bother.