Nach ähnlichen Initiativen in den USA und Großbritannien lud nun auch das EU-Parlament Facebook-Chef Mark Zuckerberg ein, um sich zu erklären. EU-Parlamentspräsident Antonio Tajani schrieb auf Twitter, das Parlament habe Zuckerberg « eingeladen ». Facebook müsse « vor den Vertretern von 500 Millionen Europäern klarstellen, dass persönliche Daten nicht dazu benutzt werden, um Demokratie zu manipulieren ». Die New…

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Facebook Inc.’s failure to safeguard privacy was blamed in an investor lawsuit for a slump in its share price that followed the revelation user data was harvested without permission by a research firm connected to U.S. President Donald Trump. The world’s largest social media network was sued in San Francisco federal court on Tuesday by…

South Africa are « extremely satisfied » with the lowering of the sanction against their premier fast bowler Kagiso Rabada, for two reasons. The obvious one is that Rabada is now cleared to play and will take his place in the XI at Newlands; the other is that the hosts feel vindicated that what they saw as…

The Cambridge Analytica chief executive secretly filmed appearing to suggest the firm use ‘beautiful’ Ukrainian sex workers to seduce politicians has been suspended. Alexander Nix will be replaced by acting CEO Alexander Tayler, the firm’s chief data scientist, who was also secretly filmed during the Channel 4 investigation. Mr Nix was recorded boasting about the firm’s work…

Image copyright AFP Image caption Pressure is growing on Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg The US Federal Trade Commission is reported to be investigating Facebook after allegations that 50 million users’ private information was misused by a political consultancy firm. Cambridge Analytica (CA), hired by the Trump campaign in the 2016 US election, has been accused of…