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Facebooks secret settlement on Cambridge Analytica gags UK information watchdog

Remember the app audit Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg promised to carry out a little bit bit beneath 3 years prior to now on the highest of the Cambridge Analytica scandal? Actually the tech large might be very keen that you just don’t. The UK’s data commissioner merely suggested a parliamentary subcommittee on…
Remember the app audit Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg promised to carry out a little under three years ago at the height of the Cambridge Analytica scandal? Actually the tech giant is very keen that you don’t. The UK’s information commissioner just told a parliamentary subcommittee on…

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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  3. "A German court thats considering Facebooks appeal against a pioneering pro-privacy order by the countrys competition authority to stop combining user data without consent has said it will refer questions to Europes top court". (March 24, 2021)
  4. "Facebooks head of global policy has denied the tech giant could close its service to Europeans if local regulators order it to suspend data transfers to the US following a landmark Court of Justice ruling in July that has cemented the schism between US surveillance laws and EU privacy rights". (September 23, 2020)
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