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Cambridge Analytica files for bankruptcy in US after it failed to recover from Facebook data scandal
•Cambridge Analytica would close and file for bankruptcy in Britain and the United States after failing to recover from the Facebook data scandal.
Cambridge Analytica declares bankruptcy, is shutting down blaming 'unfairly negative media coverage' over Facebook data scandal
•Cambridge Analytica, the Trump-affiliated data firm at the center of Facebook's worst privacy scandal in history, is declaring bankruptcy and shutting down. The London firm blamed "unfairly negative media coverage" and said it has been "vilified" for actions it says are both legal and widely accepted as part of online advertising.
Cambridge Analytica's former CEO Alexander Nix refuses to testify at upcoming session on fake news in UK
•The chair of the British Parliament’s media committee says that Cambridge Analytica's ex CEO, Alexander Nix, says he will no longer testify at a session.
Facebook to notify users if their data was scraped in Cambridge Analytica scandal
•The 87 million users who might have had their data shared with Cambridge Analytica were supposed to get a detailed message on their news feeds starting on Monday. Facebook says more than 70 million of the affected users are in the U.S., though there are over a million each in the Philippines, Indonesia and the U.K.
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower explains his motivations and why privacy is essential to a democracy
Tech2 News Staff •Christopher Wylie's documents and subsequent revelations placed the spotlight on the frivolity with which user privacy is treated.
Data of 50 million Facebook users still out in the open despite Cambridge Analytica's claim of deleting it: Report
Ians •Cambridge Analytica has been accused of influencing the result of the United Kingdom's 2016 Brexit referendum and of the 2016 American presidential election
British lawmakers publish written evidence provided by Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie
•A committee of British lawmakers on Thursday published written evidence provided by a whistleblower who says information about 50 million Facebook users ended up in the hands of political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.
Cambridge Analytica row: Whistle-blower Christopher Wylie says firm worked with Indian political parties since 2003
Fp Staff •Cambridge Analytica (CA) director and whistle-blower Christopher Wylie said that the firm had worked with Indian political parties since 2003.
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower reveals that a Canadian firm built software to profile voters for 2016 US elections
•Christopher Wylie gave evidence to a British parliamentary committee over the scandal, minutes after Mark Zuckerberg declined to appear before the legislators.
Mark Zuckerberg plans to testify before US Congress in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal
•Facebook said the company had received invitations to testify before Congress and that they were talking to legislators.