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…Original article
Author: Natasha Lomas

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