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Sources and documents reveal how Cambridge Analytica used harvested personal information from 50M Facebook profiles to build psychological profiles of US voters — LONDON — As the upstart voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica prepared to wade into the 2014 American midterm elections, it had a problem.
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Facebook suspends Trump- and Brexit-affiliated data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica after reports it and affiliated psychologist lied about data retention — We are suspending Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL), including their political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, from Facebook.
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| Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian: |
Profile of Christopher Wylie, the former Cambridge Analytica employee who is now blowing the whistle on his ex-employer's data harvesting practices — Now, 28-year-old Christopher Wylie goes on the record to discuss his role in hijacking the profiles of millions of Facebook users in order to target the US electorate
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How Facebook's old terms of service allowed Cambridge Analytica to get data on 50M people from just 270K users of an app that used Facebook Login — Facebook says it isn't at fault. — Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm that helped Donald Trump get elected president …
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Google Maps adds “plus codes”, a simple digital addressing system, to help with navigating to places without clear addresses in countries like India — Mapping a city like New York, where streets and avenues are neatly arranged in a grid, is a piece of cake. But a city in India is a different animal.
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YouTube Kids app suggested conspiracy theory videos in search results and related videos sections — - The YouTube Kids app is meant to filter out unsuitable content, but we found that it suggested that children watch conspiracy theory videos. — The app suggested several videos … | Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Fitbit will add period tracking to its app and Versa and Ionic smartwatches this Spring — But it's stopping short of tracking fertility — Fitbit's new smartwatch Versa isn't being overtly marketed at women. Doing that might alienate its male customers, who currently make up more than half of Fitbit's user base.
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Sources: hacks of Saudi petro firms in 2017 intended to trigger an explosion via compromised Schneider Electric controllers deployed in ~18k plants worldwide — In August, a petrochemical company with a plant in Saudi Arabia was hit by a new kind of cyberassault.| David Tweed / Bloomberg: |
FireEye reports suspected Chinese hacker group TEMP.Periscope has been increasing attacks at US engineering and defense companies linked to the South China Seas — Victims are in maritime industries with South China Sea ties — Hackers ‘most likely’ operating on behalf of a government
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Tinder owner Match sues Bumble for allegedly infringing on its patents, including the swipe-to-connect feature; source says Match still wants to acquire Bumble — Match Group wants to buy Bumble. Now it's also suing Bumble. — Match Group, the online dating company that owns services … | Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Investigation finds ~70 “creepshot” Tumblr blogs including one with ~11K followers and 53K+ interactions; Tumblr hasn't removed any blogs found in investigation — After Reddit famously banned the creepshots sub-reddit, which shared non-consensual, revealing photos of women …
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| Andy Patel / News from the Lab: |
F-Secure researcher discovers Twitter botnet advertising adult dating sites with over 22K linked accounts, some more than eight years old — About a week ago, a Tweet I was mentioned in received a dozen or so “likes” over a very short time period (about two minutes).
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