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The Biggest Tech Story of 2018 Was Trust
Over the course of this year, I’ve written about a thousand stories. Across that, there have been some important topics such as the ongoing troubles of Facebook that started with the Cambridge Analytica scandal in April and continued this week with revelations that personal messages were leaked to some of Facebook’s partners. We had the…
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Zuckerberg Says If Anyone Should Be Fired, It’s Him
Facebook founder, chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has given a wide-ranging interview where he addressed why it took the company so long to react to the security issues, his control over the news cycle and what he’s most sorry about.
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Here’s Everything Facebook Screwed Up This Week
Given events of recent weeks, it seems reasonable to try and pull all the latest Facebook snafus into one place. So, each week, we’ll be bringing you the latest revelations that have come to light about Facebook’s data collection, sharing and leaking. Today, we’re looking at the expanding breadth of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, how…
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Gold Coast Council Will Be Data Harvesting During Commonwealth Games
With all the outrage at revelations that Cambridge Analytica was breaching Facebook’s rules and harvesting massive swathes of data and concern at how much of our personal information is being used by Facebook, you’d think organisations would be a little more circumspect about data collection. But the Gold Coast council, which is hosting the Commonwealth…