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Quitting Facebook might be harder than you think
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Many Facebook users are deleting their accounts, but that may be hard for others.
Why a New York professor is taking on Cambridge Analytica in the U.K.
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David Carroll is using a British law to try to force Cambridge Analytica to send him the data it's gathered on him.
Sen. Kennedy to Facebook: "Don’t send your lawyers"
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Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle want to hear what CEO Mark Zuckerberg has to say in person about how the company let Cambridge Analytica harvest users' information without their permission.
To delete or not to delete
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When it comes to Facebook, that is the question.
Facebook could use some friends
Facebook’s leaders are being called on to explain themselves before officials here and in Europe. The Federal Trade Commission is examining whether Cambridge Analytica, the company that improperly siphoned the data of millions of Facebook users to create political profiles, violated a consent agreement. Now, the fact your information is for sale on the internet […]
Facebook and other tech stocks plunge as U.S. indexes skid
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NEW YORK (AP) – A sharp loss for Facebook is dragging technology companies lower Monday as U.S. stock indexes skid. The social media company is facing new criticism related to privacy issues following reports that a data mining firm working for the Trump campaign improperly obtained and then kept data on tens of millions of […]
In Facebook we (no longer) trust?
The social network is reeling from another scandal in which our data was misused.
Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and the new data war
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How Cambridge Analytica may have impacted our elections and how Facebook helped.
China moves to tighten control of the internet
In China, the internet is censored. You can’t get access to Google, or Facebook or Twitter unless you have a workaround known as a virtual private network. VPN technology lets users jump over the so-called Great Firewall of China. But now those jumping days could be ending. By month’s end, Beijing plans to block all VPN […]
Why federal regulations don’t apply to online political campaign ads
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Unlike broadcast and print ads, online ads are basically a law-free zone.

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