Facebook halts medical data sharing plan with US hospitals
Facebook has scrapped plans to gather personal data from patients in US hospitals as part of a proposed research project.
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Guest comment: Counting the broader business cost of Facebook’s data dilemma
As the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal rumbles on, Chris Ross, SVP International, Barracuda looks at how considerable change is now on the cards for businesses that let staff access Facebook and other non-work related content and apps.
Facebook admits ‘potentially every user’ hit by data breach
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has rejected calls to stand down as CEO or fire staff over ‘mistakes’ during the Cambridge Analytica scandal, after it was revealed that potentially every Facebook user has had their information scraped.
Under Armour admits 150 million MyFitnessPal accounts breached
The personal details of around 150 million users of popular nutrition app MyFitnessPal, owned by sportswear brand Under Armour, have been accessed in a breach.
Facebook updates privacy amid Cambridge Analytica scandal
Facebook has unveiled new tools to make it easier for users to see and access the data the social network holds on them, as the social media giant aims to regain trust after a backlash from users over the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
Vivaldi browser partners DuckDuckGo search to ‘take your privacy back’
Vivaldi has become the first browser to enable DuckDuckGo as the default search engine in its Private Windows.
Delete Facebook” searches increase 423% in UK
As Facebook enters the spotlight for its accountability in the Cambridge Analytica data breach affecting 50million Facebook users, is the UK ready to “Unfriend” Facebook once and for all?
Self-driving car kills pedestrian for the first time
An Uber-operated autonomous car struck a pedestrian and killed them in what is thought to be the first death of its kind.
Mastercard partners IBM for EU data trust ahead of GDPR
Mastercard and IBM teaming up to create a new ‘data trust’ within the EU, called Truata.
US election: Facebook under fire for Cambridge Analytica ‘data breach’
Facebook has been accused of failing to properly inform users that their profile information may have been obtained and kept by Cambridge Analytica, a data firm widely-credited with helping Donald Trump win the 2016 US presidential election.