Analytica

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It is assumed young people have a natural affinity to tech, but many are digitally naive and far more vulnerable than we think. Photo: iStock
The myth of ‘digital natives’

The ease at which today’s tech-savvy students swipe their way through digital devices and social media apps might lead you to believe they know where (...)

Facebook data breach: Information Commissioner’s Office enforcement agents enter Cambridge Analytica’s central London offices. Photograph: PA
Investigators enter Cambridge Analytica’s London offices

Investigators from Britain’s data watchdog on Friday entered the London offices of the data-analytics firm at the centre of a storm over allegations t(...)

Elon Musk appeared to join the #DeleteFacebook movement on Friday, taking down official pages for two of his companies, Tesla and SpaceX, after he learned - apparently for the first time - that the pages existed
Elon Musk joins #DeleteFacebook effort as Tesla and SpaceX pages vanish

Elon Musk appeared to join the #DeleteFacebook movement on Friday, taking down official pages for two of his companies, Tesla and SpaceX, after he lea(...)

The amount of data collected by Facebook and other new media companies is immense. Photograph: Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images
Door wide open to Cambridge Analytica-style political messaging in Ireland

Cambridge Analytica, the controversial data firm which claims to have helped Donald Trump win the US presidency and Brexit campaigners in the UK uptur(...)

Monday’s meltdown cost Mark Zuckerberg $4.9 billion of his fortune
Facebook shares down for second day in succession on data scandal

Facebook’s privacy crisis has turned into a shareholder crisis. The social media giant has now lost over $60 billion (€48.9 billion) in market value o(...)

Whistleblower Christopher Wylie who helped found the data firm Cambridge Analytica and worked there until 2014, in London, on March 12th, 2018. Photograph: Andrew Testa/The New York Times
What is Cambridge Analytica? The firm at the centre of Facebook’s data breach

Hilary Osborne takes a closer look at the company that has hit the headlines after it was revealed that 50 million Facebook profiles were harvested. (...)

Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty
Zuckerberg told to ‘stop hiding behind Facebook page’ amid claims of huge data breach

Mark Zuckerberg should appear before British MPs and “stop hiding behind his Facebook page”, a politician has said, after it was revealed a British da(...)

Cambridge Analytica board members include Trump’s right-hand man Steve Bannon. Photograph: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AFP/Getty Images
Trump used sophisticated propaganda to win US election

A small amount of media attention has been directed at a political consultancy firm called Cambridge Analytica. Hired by Republican super PACs and can(...)