where the District of Columbia is suing Facebook in a consumer protection enforcement case.įacebook is seeking to have documents pertaining to the case sealed, while the District argues there is nothing commercially sensitive to require that.
The latest twist in the privacy scandal has emerged via a redacted court filing in the U.S. months earlier than Facebook previously told lawmakers it became aware of the GSR/CA breach (December 2015). Last year a major privacy scandal hit Facebook after it emerged CA had paid GSR, a developer with access to Facebook’s platform, to extract personal data on as many as 87 million Facebook users without proper consent.Ĭambridge Analytica’s intention was to use the data to build psychographic profiles of American voters to target political messages - with the company initially working for the Ted Cruz and later the Donald Trump presidential candidate campaigns.īut employees at Facebook appear to have raised internal concerns about CA scraping user data in September 2015 - i.e. Further details have emerged about when and how much Facebook knew about data-scraping by the disgraced and now defunct Cambridge Analytica political data firm.
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