The Wall Street Journal: Facebook to give academics ‘full access’ to data for election studies

Facebook will give a group of academics “full access” to data on its 2.2 billion users to identify areas of research about the effects of social media on elections and democracy.....»»

India wrote letters to Facebook and Twitter citing specific employees in the country who risk jail time, The Wall Street Journal reported. Members of human rights organisations hold placards in.....»»

Congressional antitrust investigators are scrutinizing plans by Google to use a new internet protocol, concerned that it could give the company a competitive advantage by making it harder for others to access consumer data......»»

Top European lawmakers are set to interrogate Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday over the company’s handling of alleged data misuse and election interference......»»

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Facebook made special deals with a small number of companies to extend access to user data after ending access for others, Facebook confirms after a Wall Street Journal report on the deals.     
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Facebook Inc. believes that the hackers who gained access to the private information of 30 million of its users were spammers looking to make money through deceptive advertising, according to people familiar with the company’s internal investigation......»»

When a small app developer sued Facebook Inc. in 2015 over how it restricts access to user data, the action got little attention, in part because the social-media giant successfully sought to have most of the court records sealed......»»

Idea discussed in emails contained in unredacted court documents, The Wall Street Journal reports......»»

China’s regulators are trying to get Jack Ma to do something the beleaguered billionaire has long resisted: share the troves of consumer-credit data collected by his financial-technology behemoth......»»

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) employees use privileged access to third-party seller data on its platform to determine which of the company's label products to launch, the Wall Street Journal read more.....»»

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission approved a roughly $5 billion settlement with Facebook Inc this week over its investigation into the social media company's handling of user data, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday......»»

Circle Square Investments' Jeff Sica, Wall Street Journal Editorial Page Assistant Editor James Freeman and FBN's Liz MacDonald and Ashley Webster on reports Google gathers more of user's personal information than Facebook does......»»

Facebook Inc. is planning to design chips that could be used in its consumer devices, artificial-intelligence software and data centers, according to a person familiar with the matter and recent job listings......»»

Twitter Inc. said it sold data to the Cambridge University academic who had separately shared user data he gleaned from Facebook Inc. with third parties including the controversial research firm Cambridge Analytica......»»

Evan Vucci/AP   Cambridge Analytica, the data firm used by the 2016 Trump campaign at the center of a scandal involving the misuse of Facebook customer data, is shutting d.....»»

Equifax shareholders voted to re-elect all of the company’s board members who were on the ballot, though several directors including the board’s chairman received a significant number of votes against their re-election......»»

Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron and other European officials next week, as the Silicon Valley giant tries to calm tension with regulators and policy makers on both sides of the Atlantic......»»