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The settlement stems from a lawsuit alleging Facebook developers sold user data to Cambridge Analytica, a former political consulting firm, to target people in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Facebook paid the fine to the U.K.'s data protection watchdog, but it also made no admission of liability.
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There's a victim-blamey tone in Brittany Kaiser's memoir Targeted, but what it offers over other look-backs is a more in-the-room account of what exactly, she alleges, was in the company's pitch deck.
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Before going public, data scientist Christopher Wylie helped the now defunct company figure out how to target people online. In a new memoir, he offers details of the project and the players.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., says his panel is investigating allegations of obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power by the president and other officials.
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Cambridge Analytica used Facebook to find and target Americans to trigger paranoia and racial biases, Christopher Wylie, a former worker for the data analytics firm, told lawmakers on Wednesday.
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The U.K.-based firm made headlines for using data from Facebook users without their permission. Video also showed its executives describing campaign tactics of entrapment.
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Alexander Tayler, acting CEO, is stepping down, according to a statement from the Cambridge Analytica board of directors. The firm is at the heart of a scandal involving the use of Facebook data.
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Facebook now says Cambridge Analytica could have improperly accessed up to 87 million Facebook users. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday the social media giant made "a huge mistake"
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He will answer to Senate and House committees on the company's failure to protect users' personal data.