In london, British investigators searched offices of consulting firm Cambridge Analytica during night to Saturday. The accusations against company weigh heavily: Not only is company supposed to have unlawfully acquired data and by means of which millions of US voters have influenced election campaign. According to British Guardian, authorities are also investigating wher Cambridge Analytica could have played a role in referendum on Brexit. In June 2016, a small majority of British voted for a withdrawal from EU.
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A former Cambridge Analytica employee told Guardian that company had collaborated with EU exit campaign, Leave.EU, but later denied. One of co-founders of campaign, Richard Tice, told BBC that company had offered its services, but y were not engaged.
Last weekend, it has become known that data analysis company should have been unjustifiably concerned by an app developer access to information from around 50 million Facebook users. What data and how many it is, British Data Protection Authority ICO wants to investigate. According to British media reports, 18 IOC employees gained access to London headquarters of consulting firm at night to Saturday. We will now secure, evaluate and evaluate evidence before conclusions are drawn, it was said in a communication.
Cambridge Analytica has already been banned from Facebook. The company did not delete any unlawfully received user data, contrary to earlier assurances, network stated in explanatory memorandum. Facebook knew about it since 2015, but was satisfied with assurance that data had been deleted. Users were not informed about what Facebook now calls a mistake and wants to catch up.
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Founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg said that software interfaces that made such broad access to user data possible for a survey app were already closed in 2014. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) initiated an investigation into Facebook for information from Washington Post. The federal government has asked European Facebook tip for this Monday to talk.
Tesla and SpaceX Delete Facebook pages
The image of network has suffered severely under scandal: on night of Saturday, Facebook pages of Elektroautoherstellers Tesla and space company SpaceX from net, probably at instigation of boss of two companies, Elon Musk. Previously, Mozilla, developer of Web browser Firefox, announced that it would not place ads on Facebook until it improved privacy settings. The provider of networked loudspeakers Sonos stops online advertising for a week not only on Facebook, but also on photo platform Instagram, Google and Twitter.
Facebook is now trying to reassure advertising agencies behind scenes and assure m that data of ir customers are safe, Wall Street Journal reported, citing informed people. The online network with more than two billion users deserves a lot of its money with ads.
On Twitter, hashtag deletefacebook (“delete Facebook”) has been on market for days. It was also picked up by WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, who once sold his messaging app to Facebook for around 22 billion dollars and was busy re until recently.
