Highly sensitive user data collected from the app was left on a badly secured website for anybody to get at.
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Twitter sold user data to Cambridge Analytica’s Aleksandr Kogan
The admission is part of an effort to explain how unlike Facebook Twitter is.
How to protect your Facebook data [UPDATED]
Facebook’s in hyper privacy-tweaking mode. Herein, how to protect your privacy now that it’s fiddled with the dials.
Congress chews up Zuckerberg, day two: A far more thorough mastication
“What’s the difference between Facebook and J. Edgar Hoover?”
Steve Wozniak explains why he deactivated his Facebook account
As his 5,000 Facebook friends are about to find out, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has well and truly left the building.
Congress grills Zuckerberg, day one: How does this online stuff work?
On Tuesday, senators began their questioning of the virgin-to-Congressional-grilling, Mark Zuckerberg.
How to check if your Facebook data was shared with Cambridge Analytica
Here’s how to find out whether you or your friends shared personal data with controversial data-harvesting company Cambridge Analytica
Another company’s been harvesting Facebook user data
Like Cambridge Analytica, Cubeyou also gobbled users’ data with personality quizzes, under the guise of “research.”
5 Facebook facepalms (just last week)
Facebook has been in the news of late for all the wrong reasons, and it’s only getting worse.
Hooray! Facebook ditches searching for people by phone number or email
The account recovery feature allowed for scraping of any public profile data. Also this: CA actually may have gotten 87m users’ data.