Fb denies making contradictory claims on Cambridge Analytica and different ‘sketchy’ apps

Fb has denied contradicting itself in proof to the United Kingdom parliament and a US public prosecutor. Closing month the Division for Virtual, Tradition, Media and Recreation (DCMS) committee wrote to the corporate to boost what it mentioned had been discrepancies in proof Fb has given to world parlia…
Facebook has denied contradicting itself in evidence to the UK parliament and a US public prosecutor. Last month the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee wrote to the company to raise what it said were discrepancies in evidence Facebook has given to international parlia…

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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  2. "Following the landmark CJEU Schrems II ruling in July, which invalidated the four-year-old EU-US Privacy Shield, European data protection regulators have today published 38-pages of guidancefor businesses stuck trying to navigate the uncertainty around how to (legally) transfer perso". (November 11, 2020)
  3. "Reset yer counters: Facebook has had to fess up to yet another major ad reporting fail. This one looks like it could be costly for the tech giant to put right not least because its another dent in its reputation for self reporting". (November 26, 2020)
  4. "Some more internal emails Facebook really doesnt want you to see: Turns out in 2017 COO Sheryl Sandberg had already known for years there were problems with a free ad planning tool the company offers to marketeers to display estimates of how many people campaigns running on its platform may ". (February 18, 2021)
  5. "Austrias Supreme Court has dismissed Facebooks appeal in a long running speech takedown case ruling it must remove references to defamatory comments made about a local politician worldwide for as long as the injunction lasts". (November 12, 2020)
  6. "Facebooks self-regulatory Oversight Board (FOB) has delivered its first batch of decisions on contested content moderation decisions almost two months after picking its first cases". (January 28, 2021)
  7. "Last months ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), ripping up the EU-US Privacy Shield and sewing doubt over alternative mechanisms, has put a cat among the pigeons of international data transfers". (August 26, 2020)
  8. "Facebooks lead data supervisor in the European Union has opened an investigation into whether the tech giant violated data protection rules vis-a-vis the leak of data reported earlier this month". (April 14, 2021)
  9. "The UKs data watchdog has sent a letter to parliament In lieu of a final report on a wide-ranging investigation into online political advertising which saw it raid the offices of Cambridge Analytica in 2018 after it emerged that the disgraced (and now defunct) data company had improperly acquired ". (October 6, 2020)
  10. "Facebook is firing up its lawyers to try to block EU regulators from forcing it to suspend transatlantic data transfers in the wake of a landmark ruling by Europes top court this summer". (September 11, 2020)
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