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Facebook Responds to Indian Government Notice over Data Breach

12May By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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Facebook Responds to Indian Government Notice over Data Breach

Social Media company Facebook which has been in "hot waters" for a while now has responded to Indian government's latest notice on alleged data breach outlining in detail the “changes made” to protect users’ information. The U.K based data firm, Cambridge Analytica, on the other hand, is yet to send a formal response to Government's second notice as informed by an IT official. Once the replies from both the parties get sought, a view will be taken and reviewed for examination. Meanwhile, a representative from Facebook said in an email statement, "We are committed to protecting people's information and safeguarding the integrity of elections in India." We hope we have helped to answer important questions about the changes we have made to further protect users information as well as e...

Facebook Admits Cambridge Analytica Accessed Data of 87 Million Users

5Apr By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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Facebook Admits Cambridge Analytica Accessed Data of 87 Million Users

British data firm Cambridge Analytica may have accessed personal information of about 87 million users, according to Facebook Inc.This has come as a first official confirmation regarding possible data leak scope which was earlier predicted to be 50 million. Mike Schroepfer, Chief Technology Officer at Facebook in his blog post published on Wednesday, stated Given the scale and sophistication of the situation we have observed, we predict most users of Facebook could have had their personal data scrapped in this manner. The update has come right a week before "Mark" is expected to bespeak before Congress on whether Cambridge Analytica "inappropriately" used data when users downloaded personality apps earlier in 2014. Post the data breach controversy, Facebook has ...

27Mar By PriyankaNo Comments

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These Tweets Reveal How “India’s Two Leading Parties” Data Can be Easily Hack

CleverTap, a five-year-old US-based startup founded by three Indians is facing the heat after a pseudonymous researcher alleged that Indian PM Modi's Namo app was disclosing private information like name, email, mobile number, device information, and location, to servers controlled by the firm without the user's consent. The hacker & researcher known as Elliot Alderson on twitter, in a series of tweets, pointed the privacy lapses in the NaMO App and alleged that mobile marketing platform CleverTap was the beneficiary of the data transfer. Tweet 1- 1/ In this request, the @narendramodi's #Android #application sends silently and without the user's consent, his IP address and a unique identifier of his phone. This personal data is sent to the website https://t.co/XTWhe9kc5T whic...

#FacebookDataLeak: Zuckerberg, US Senate & Farhan Akhtar Controversy

27Mar By NitishNo Comments

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#FacebookDataLeak: Zuckerberg, US Senate & Farhan Akhtar Controversy

Amid the Facebook-Analytica data leak controversy, the US Federal Trade Commission has confirmed that Facebook is under investigation into its privacy practices, amidst allegations that its connection with British company Cambridge Analytica resulted in misuse of personal data of some 50 million users. In a related development, attorney generals of as many as 37 states yesterday sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg calling for answers to reports that millions of Facebook users personal data were provided to third parties without their knowledge or informed consent. In the letter, the attorney generals demand to know about the Facebook role in the manipulation of users data by Cambridge Analytica without those users knowledge as well as Facebook's policies and procedures for ...

10 Best Tweets About Facebook Data Leak Scandal

22Mar By Sheldan RungasamyNo Comments

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10 Best Tweets About Facebook Data Leak Scandal

Facebook has been under hot water these past few days after an investigation has been initiated against the social media website amidst reports that the world's most popular social website's user data was used to influence the 2016 US Presidential Elections result. The news shocked the world and many individuals started a twitter campaign under the hashtag #DeleteFacebook on the micro-blogging platform voicing out their opinions about the scandal. Facebook did issue an apology but it failed to convince most users. Here at Pixr8 News, we have compiled the 10 best Tweets found on the popular website. 1 This is indeed very disturbing... This Mark Zuckerberg's attitude towards your privacy. Didn't expect this ?#DeleteFacebookpic.twitter.com/3CRCyiw3jH — Ketul Madhvan...

Facebook Made a Mistake: Mark Zuckerberg

22Mar By NitishNo Comments

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Facebook Made a Mistake: Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that his company made mistakes on user data protection and vowed to take steps to prevent the misuse or breach of personal data of users by developers or business partners. The major data breach that was happened yesterday, our reports revealed that 50 million people manipulate in Donald Trumps 2016 presidential campaign by a UK based political research company called Cambridge Analytica. 33 years old Mark Zuckerberg posted a lengthy Facebook post, broke his silence over the alleged privacy scandal that hit the social media giant. "I started Facebook, and at the end of the day, I'm responsible for what happens on our platform. I'm serious about doing what it takes to protect our community, Facebook has a "responsibility" to protect its user's da...