Leaked communications by The Guardian reveal an unsuccessful attempt to smear Muhammadu Buhari and secure Goodluck Jonathan's presidency before a pivotal election in Nigeria in 2015. In an undercover ...

A SEC Deposition shows that the Meta CEO had planned to tell users they would analyze the political consulting firm back in 2017. Then the script changed. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes One ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will reportedly consider spiking a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) that accuses the Mark Zuckerberg-led company of duping investors on the ...

An auditing firm responsible for monitoring Facebook for federal regulators told them last year that the company had sufficient privacy protections in place, even after the social media giant lost ...

Can money buy privacy? Facebook’s parent, Meta, has proposed to settle a long-running privacy class action lawsuit in the Northern District of California related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, ...

Five years after the Cambridge Analytica scandal involving Facebook, digital rights activists David Carroll and Brittany Kaiser said major steps have been taken towards consumers securing the right to ...

When the Guardian reported in late 2015 on the link between Kogan and Cambridge, it prompted Facebook to promise to investigate the situation. (The Guardian's story was pegged to Sen. Ted Cruz's ...

The Supreme Court considered Wednesday a bid from Facebook to block a shareholder lawsuit over the Cambridge Analytica data scandal from moving forward. Shareholders sued the social media company ...

Enforcement officers from the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office early Saturday finished searching the London offices of Cambridge Analytica, the political consultancy company accused of ...

The stench of Cambridge Analytica is still hovering over Facebook, as parent Meta just agreed to pay 311,000 Australian users AUD $50 million ($31.7 million) over the scandal. The settlement with the ...

We learned some important lessons this week about the dangers inherent to losing control of your customer or client data, either through hacking, internal theft, or poorly designed controls over what ...