The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), UK's data protection watchdog has placed a £500,000 fine on Facebook for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.In a statement released on Thursday, the agency said the fine is the maximum allowed under its 1998 data protection rules and would have been higher under the European Union's GDPR."Between 2007 and 2014, Facebook processed the [...]
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Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook chief executive, has told US lawmakers that he was among the 87 million users of the platform whose data was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, a consultancy firm.Appearing before the lawmakers on Wednesday, Zuckerberg denied the allegation that users do not have enough control of their data on Facebook.The 33-year-old told the house committee on energy and [...]
Ikechukwu Eze, spokesman of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has denied dragging the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) into the Cambridge Analytica controversy.Cambridge Analytica is alleged to have attempted to influence the 2015 presidential election.A whistle-blower had told a UK parliamentary committee of how the organisation allegedly hacked into President Muhammadu Buhari’s records and also distributed violent videos to intimidate the president's supporters.Eze [...]
The UK Guardian has released a video of how Cambridge Analytica allegedly sought to influence the 2015 presidential election.In the video, graphically violent images were used to portray President Muhammadu Buhari, then candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as a supporter of Sharia law who would brutally suppress dissenters and negotiate with extremist groups.Christopher Wylie, a whistleblower, had told [...]
Black Cube, a private intelligence firm, accused of working for Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm alleged to have hacked President Muhammadu Buhari's records ahead of the 2015 elections, has denied the allegations.TheCable had reported how Cambridge Analytica allegedly hacked into Buhari's medical and financial records ahead of the election.An unnamed Nigerian billionaire was said to have contacted Cambridge Analytica [...]
Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, has called on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to explain its role in the Cambridge Analytica hacking scandal.He said the party's alleged involvement in the scandal shows "rigging is its main area of core competence".It recently emerged that a wealthy supporter of former President Goodluck Jonathan allegedly hired [...]
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