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Mark Zuckerberg on biggest career mistake he made: ‘I look back and regret…’

Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged a major career mistake related to political miscalculations, particularly regarding Facebook's role in 2016 US election.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted to a major career misstep, labeling it a political miscalculation. He reflected on Facebook's struggles with content moderation and expressed regret for not addressing government pressure during the 2016 election, promising to push back in the future.

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Published on Sep 17, 2024 08:45 AM IST

ByHT News Desk | Edited by Mallika Soni

Meta to pay $725 million to settle lawsuit relating to Cambridge Analytica

Facebook's proposed settlement in the long-running Cambridge Analytica lawsuit aims to resolve the data access scandal involving 87 million users.

Facebook is owned by Meta platforms.(Reuters)

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Updated on Feb 28, 2023 09:17 PM IST

Reuters | | Posted by Singh Rahul Sunilkumar

CBI books Cambridge Analytica over Facebook data theft

The CBI enquiry revealed that Kogan, founder and director of Global Science Research, created a Facebook app, “thisisyourdigitallife”; the app was authorised to collect certain specific data of the users for academic and research purposes.

The agency said that the app illegally collected additional unauthorised data of users as well as their friends’ network on Facebook; in all, data of 335 users and their network of 562,000 of their friends were compromised.(File photo)

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Updated on Jan 23, 2021 04:52 AM IST

ByNeeraj Chauhan, New Delhi

CBI files case against Cambridge Analytica, Global Science: Key points

CBI filed has a case against Cambridge Analytica and UK's Global Science Research Ltd for harvesting data of Facebook users in India.

The nameplate of political consultancy, Cambridge Analytica, is seen in central London, Britain. (Reuters File Photo)

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Updated on Jan 22, 2021 01:55 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent | Edited by Meenakshi Ray, New Delhi

Financially troubled startup modelled after Cambridge Analytica helped power Trump campaign

Austin-based Phunware Inc lets Trump’s team communicate directly with the 2.8 million people who downloaded it, more than any other app in a US presidential campaign, and if they gave permission, with their entire contact list as well

While the campaign may be winding down, the data strategy is very much alive, and the digital details the app collected can be put to multiple other uses(AP)

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Updated on Nov 18, 2020 02:10 PM IST

Austin | ByAssociated Press | Posted by Ayshee Bhaduri

Ex-CEO of Cambridge Analytica banned from running cos for seven years

Alexander Nix, former CEO of controversial political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica that worked on projects in India and other countries between 2013 and 2018, was banned on Thursday by the UK government from running companies for seven years. Officials said that Nix, 45, gave an undertaking that he caused or permitted companies he was associated with to offer ‘unethical services’ to clients that included bribery and honey-trap stings, demonstrating a lack of commercial probity.

Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica arrives at the offices of Cambridge Analytica in central London on March 20, 2018.(Reuters file)

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Updated on Sep 24, 2020 06:00 PM IST

Hindustan Times, London | ByPrasun Sonwalkar

Political slugfest over Facebook intensifies

Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Sunday alleged that the BJP and its ideological parent the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh control Facebook and WhatsApp in India.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged that Facebook in India is controlled by BJP.(PTI File Photo)

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Updated on Aug 17, 2020 12:53 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByDeeksha Bhardwaj

Facebook agrees to pay 500,000 pound fine to UK over Cambridge Analytica

Facebook said it wished it had “done more to investigate claims about Cambridge Analytica in 2015.”

Facebook has agreed to pay 500,000 pound fine as part of a settlement with UK’s data protection watchdog over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.(Reuters File Photo)

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Updated on Oct 31, 2019 10:29 AM IST

London | ByIndo Asian News Service

Facebook suspends ‘tens of thousands’ of apps in privacy review

The review was launched in 2018 after revelations that the political consultancy hijacked personal data on millions of Facebook users and included attorneys, external investigators, data scientists, engineers, policy specialists and others, according to a Facebook statement.

Facebook suspended “tens of thousands” of apps on its platform as a result of its review on privacy.(Reuters Photo)

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Published on Sep 21, 2019 06:56 AM IST

San Francisco | ByPress Trust of India

Major scrutiny awaits for Big Tech

Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple could face new restrictions on their power as House Judiciary Committee heads an antitrust probe into their conduct and business.

The logos of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google are seen in a combination photo from Reuters files.(REUTERS/File Photo)

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Published on Jul 25, 2019 11:16 AM IST

New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Facebook Doesn’t Know If You’re Psychotic

For just 10 of the 21 conditions, the Facebook feeds were more informative than basic demographic data such as sex, ethnicity and age.

The study has been carried out by researchers at Penn Medicine and Stony Brook University.(Unsplash)

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Updated on Jul 03, 2019 12:39 PM IST

Bloomberg | ByBloomberg

‘Have to seriously take look at breaking up Facebook’: Indian-origin US senator Kamala Harris

Harris, Senator from California where all the major US tech giants are based, said that Facebook has experienced massive growth and has prioritised its growth consumers’ interests, especially on privacy

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Updated on May 13, 2019 02:23 PM IST

Washington | ByPress Trust of India

Keep a watch on Facebook’s plans

Its ambition to be like WeChat is a frightening prospect

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Updated on May 10, 2019 07:36 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

Facebook spends $22.6 million to keep Mark Zuckerberg safe

Nearly $20 million went towards security for Zuckerberg and his family, up from about $9 million the year prior. Zuckerberg also received $2.6 million for personal use of private jets, which the company said was part of his overall security programme.

Facebook has in the past few years faced public outcry over its role in Russia’s alleged influence on the 2016 US presidential election and has come under fire following revelations that Cambridge Analytica obtained personal data from millions of Facebook profiles without consent.(AP File Photo)

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Updated on Apr 13, 2019 01:19 PM IST

Reuters | ByReuters

Facebook can’t behave like ‘digital gangster’, says UK report

Companies like Facebook should not be allowed to behave like ‘digital gangsters’ in the online world, considering themselves to be ahead of and beyond the law, a hard-hitting report on ‘fake news’ by an influential committee of UK parliament said on Monday.

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Updated on Feb 18, 2019 06:28 PM IST

Hindustan Times, London | ByPrasun Sonwalkar

The 29-year-old who rocked Facebook has big data plans for H&M

Before he was at Cambridge Analytica, Wylie worked as a fashion-trends forecaster. When H&M learned of his former life, it started talking to the Canadian about a potential collaboration.

At H&M, 29-year-old Christopher Wylie will help the company use big data and artificial intelligence to make sure it actually designs things shoppers want.(Christopher Wylie)

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Updated on Feb 01, 2019 07:41 AM IST

ByAnna Molin and Niklas Magnusson, Bloomberg

Privacy laws cannot make Facebeook and Google accountable

To safeguard users’ privacy, we need to be able to move away from platforms like Facebook without losing access to their networks.

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc., speaks in a conference in the US. While 2018 was the year of amazing investigations on Facebook, there have been grave let-downs in reporting and analysis.(Bloomberg)

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Updated on Jan 03, 2019 07:38 AM IST

ByPranesh Prakash

India’s data protection law: Strengthen rules but also follow through to the last mile

Post the Justice Puttaswamy v. UOI Privacy judgment and its emphatic declaration of privacy being a fundamental right, there is renewed interest in personal data protection, this time however with the individual and not commerce being the focus

While it remains to be proven, the violations checklist in the US case against Facebook is indicative of what is in store for users of many an online platform – from allegations of misleading privacy settings to indiscriminate sharing of data with third parties and failure to disclose data breach, the list covers them all. The conspectus of the averments primarily brings to the fore the abject absence of choice and consent.(Getty Images/iStockphoto)

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Updated on Dec 31, 2018 09:56 AM IST

ByNS Nappinai

Facebook sued by US lawyer over Cambridge Analytica data scandal

Washington, DC Attorney General Karl Racine said Facebook misled users because it had known about the incident for two years before disclosing it.

world news

Updated on Dec 20, 2018 08:53 AM IST

Washington | ByReuters

Facebook gave tech giants, including Netflix, access to users’ private messages: Reports

Social media giant Facebook has been sharing its users’ personal data, including private messages and contact information for users’ friends, with some of the world’s largest technology companies like Microsoft, Amazon

world news

Updated on Dec 19, 2018 04:20 PM IST

Press Trust of India | ByPress Trust of India

Facebook vied to conceal Russia meddling in 2016 US presidential election: Report

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and chief operating officer Cheryl Sandberg, were both so bent on growing the company that they “ignored warning signs and then sought to conceal them from public view,” the report said.

Facebook misled the public about its knowledge of Russian hackers’ use of the powerful platform to meddle in the 2016 US presidential election, a New York Times investigation reported Thursday.(REUTERS)

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Updated on Nov 15, 2018 06:33 PM IST

Washington | ByAgence France-Presse

Facebook to launch political ads archive before 2019 polls

Facebook’s ads archive allows people to look at the ad content across Facebook and Instagram, the duration for which an ad ran, the estimated number of people who saw it, the locations where it was viewed, among other things.

New Delhi, India - Oct. 6, 2018: Richard Allan, VP Policy Solutions, Facebook during the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit at Taj Palace in New Delhi, India, on Saturday, October 6, 2018.(HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Oct 07, 2018 07:10 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Attempts to sway polls with tech biggest challenge: Chief election commissioner OP Rawat

CEC OP Rawat says that while the Election Commission has strengthened mechanisms to prevent distribution of cash and freebies during elections, it will need “to brainstorm to come up with imaginative steps” to counter data mining and misuse.

Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat addresses a conference in New Delhi.(PTI File Photo)

india news

Updated on Oct 01, 2018 07:50 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | BySmriti Kak Ramachandran

CBI writes to Facebook, Cambridge Analytica over data theft: Report

In the letters sent to Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sought the details of data collection exercise adapted by them, sources said.

india news

Updated on Sep 17, 2018 07:55 PM IST

New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India

Won’t allow social media to hurt India’s election process, says government

The comments come amid worry that data of users on web services such as Facebook and Twitter can be mined and misused in order to influence poll outcomes, a concern stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

india news

Updated on Aug 27, 2018 11:18 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Facebook data breach: CBI begins preliminary enquiry against Cambridge Analytica, GSR

It is alleged that Cambridge Analytica received data from Global Science Research which employed “illegal means” of personal data harvesting of Indians using Facebook, officials said.

The CBI has initiated a preliminary enquiry against Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research for alleged illegal personal data harvesting of Indians from Facebook, officials said on Wednesday.(Reuters Photo)

india news

Published on Aug 08, 2018 08:00 PM IST

New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India

UK MPs seek social media curbs to fight fake news

Seeking to define ‘fake news’, a report noted that the term became widely used in 2016, notably by US President Donald Trump, “to describe content published by established news providers that they dislike or disagree with, but is more widely applied to various types of false information”.

world news

Updated on Jul 29, 2018 02:55 PM IST

Hindustan Times, London | ByPrasun Sonwalkar

Data protection bill will hold tech companies such as Facebook, Google accountable for users’ information

A draft of the data protection bill, that was submitted to the government on Friday, says there will be consequences for companies that collect users’ data, and also calls for storing this information in India.

The focus on data protection comes after the scandal in March over access gained by political marketing firm Cambridge Analytica to user’s data collected through Facebook.

india news

Updated on Jul 28, 2018 09:04 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByVidhi Choudhary

India moves closer to first data privacy law as Srikrishna panel submits report, focus on individual users’ consent

Justice Srikrishna said privacy has become a burning issue and therefore, every effort has to be made to protect data at any cost.

A report submitted by a panel headed by Justice BN Srikrishna makes individual consent the centrepiece of data sharing, awards rights to users, imposes obligations on “data fiduciaries”.(AFP File Photo/Representative image)

india news

Updated on Jul 28, 2018 09:13 AM IST

New Delhi | ByNakul Sridhar and Zia Haq

CBI to investigate if Cambridge Analytica violated IT Act, IPC, says Ravi Shankar Prasad

Facebook has faced increased scrutiny in the United States and the European Union over how Cambridge Analytica obtained the personal data of 87 million Facebook users. The consultancy allegedly used the data to support US President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign.

Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said it is suspected that Cambridge Analytica may have been involved in illegally obtaining data of Indians which could be misused.(HT File Photo/Sonu Mehta)

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Updated on Jul 26, 2018 09:00 PM IST

New Delhi, Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

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Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged a major career mistake related to political miscalculations, particularly regarding Facebook's role in 2016 US election.

Facebook's proposed settlement in the long-running Cambridge Analytica lawsuit aims to resolve the data access scandal involving 87 million users.

The CBI enquiry revealed that Kogan, founder and director of Global Science Research, created a Facebook app, “thisisyourdigitallife”; the app was authorised to collect certain specific data of the users for academic and research purposes.

CBI filed has a case against Cambridge Analytica and UK's Global Science Research Ltd for harvesting data of Facebook users in India.

Austin-based Phunware Inc lets Trump’s team communicate directly with the 2.8 million people who downloaded it, more than any other app in a US presidential campaign, and if they gave permission, with their entire contact list as well

Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Sunday alleged that the BJP and its ideological parent the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh control Facebook and WhatsApp in India.

Facebook said it wished it had “done more to investigate claims about Cambridge Analytica in 2015.”

The review was launched in 2018 after revelations that the political consultancy hijacked personal data on millions of Facebook users and included attorneys, external investigators, data scientists, engineers, policy specialists and others, according to a Facebook statement.

Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple could face new restrictions on their power as House Judiciary Committee heads an antitrust probe into their conduct and business.

For just 10 of the 21 conditions, the Facebook feeds were more informative than basic demographic data such as sex, ethnicity and age.

Harris, Senator from California where all the major US tech giants are based, said that Facebook has experienced massive growth and has prioritised its growth consumers’ interests, especially on privacy

Its ambition to be like WeChat is a frightening prospect

Nearly $20 million went towards security for Zuckerberg and his family, up from about $9 million the year prior. Zuckerberg also received $2.6 million for personal use of private jets, which the company said was part of his overall security programme.

Companies like Facebook should not be allowed to behave like ‘digital gangsters’ in the online world, considering themselves to be ahead of and beyond the law, a hard-hitting report on ‘fake news’ by an influential committee of UK parliament said on Monday.

Before he was at Cambridge Analytica, Wylie worked as a fashion-trends forecaster. When H&M learned of his former life, it started talking to the Canadian about a potential collaboration.

To safeguard users’ privacy, we need to be able to move away from platforms like Facebook without losing access to their networks.

Post the Justice Puttaswamy v. UOI Privacy judgment and its emphatic declaration of privacy being a fundamental right, there is renewed interest in personal data protection, this time however with the individual and not commerce being the focus

Washington, DC Attorney General Karl Racine said Facebook misled users because it had known about the incident for two years before disclosing it.

Social media giant Facebook has been sharing its users’ personal data, including private messages and contact information for users’ friends, with some of the world’s largest technology companies like Microsoft, Amazon

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and chief operating officer Cheryl Sandberg, were both so bent on growing the company that they “ignored warning signs and then sought to conceal them from public view,” the report said.

Facebook’s ads archive allows people to look at the ad content across Facebook and Instagram, the duration for which an ad ran, the estimated number of people who saw it, the locations where it was viewed, among other things.

CEC OP Rawat says that while the Election Commission has strengthened mechanisms to prevent distribution of cash and freebies during elections, it will need “to brainstorm to come up with imaginative steps” to counter data mining and misuse.

In the letters sent to Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sought the details of data collection exercise adapted by them, sources said.

The comments come amid worry that data of users on web services such as Facebook and Twitter can be mined and misused in order to influence poll outcomes, a concern stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

It is alleged that Cambridge Analytica received data from Global Science Research which employed “illegal means” of personal data harvesting of Indians using Facebook, officials said.

Seeking to define ‘fake news’, a report noted that the term became widely used in 2016, notably by US President Donald Trump, “to describe content published by established news providers that they dislike or disagree with, but is more widely applied to various types of false information”.

A draft of the data protection bill, that was submitted to the government on Friday, says there will be consequences for companies that collect users’ data, and also calls for storing this information in India.

Justice Srikrishna said privacy has become a burning issue and therefore, every effort has to be made to protect data at any cost.

Facebook has faced increased scrutiny in the United States and the European Union over how Cambridge Analytica obtained the personal data of 87 million Facebook users. The consultancy allegedly used the data to support US President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign.

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