Cambridge Analytica is a consultancy suspected of improperly using the data of as many as 87 million people.
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“Facebook confirmed to us that the data of overall up to 2.7 million … people in the EU may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica,” said Christian Wigand, a commission spokesman.
Facebook said on Tuesday it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a “troll factory” indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S. election campaign.
This number is up from a previous news media estimate of more than 50 million.
The Commissioner for Science and Technology, Dan Manjang, disclosed this on Wednesday in Jos when the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Plateau Council, paid him a courtesy visit.
Zuckerberg said: “I think we will dig through this hole, but it will take a few years.
A Presidency source informed Sate House correspondents at the weekend that the Federal Government has set up an in-house committee to investigate whether Cambridge Analytica’s work for the then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party, in the 2007 and 2015 general elections campaigns broke the laws of this country or infringed on the rights of other parties and their candidates.
Franco’s sister and her partner had lodged a complaint against Facebook for spreading false and slanderous information about the popular councillor and human rights activist, who was shot dead in Rio de Janeiro on March 14.
“In so far it must be feared that this scandal will not result in any concrete consequences beyond Facebook’s apology statement and show of remorse,” Caspar told the newspaper “Handelsblatt”.
Facebook’s Public Policy Director, Africa, Ebele Okobi, said at the launch that the initiative was designed to inspire and train female entrepreneurs.
Scrutiny by the US Federal Trade Commission generally confirms the existence of an investigation only in cases of significant public interest.
The San Francisco-based firm will this week launch a policy that prohibits advertising of initial coin offerings, a form of crowd funding used to raise cash by creating new coins.
The founder of the platform, Mark Zuckerberg, said in a statement that the step was also to ensure that people’s trust was gained.
Zuckerberg, in his first comments since the company disclosed on Friday the misuse of personal data, said in a post on Facebook that the company “made mistakes, there’s more to do, and we need to step up and do it”
The NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, AVM Olatokunbo Adesanya, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
The Red Devils, who topped Deloitte’s Money League in January for the world’s richest clubs, also came out top of the Social Network Rankings for the English Premier League in 2017
Damian Collins, who heads Culture, Media and Sports Committee, said he had repeatedly asked Facebook how companies acquired and held on to user data from their site, and particularly if data had been taken without their consent.
The move came as U.S. and European lawmakers demanded an explanation of how the consulting firm, which worked on President Donald Trump’s election campaign, gained access to the data.
The share plunge erased $5 billion from the net worth of Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg
According to a statement issued by him, there is need to strengthen knowledge and skills of Nigerian youths on ways to engage and use the internet positively towards socio-economic growth of the country.