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Facebook Dobs On Tech Giants Says They Also Collect Data

April 19, 2018 03:36·
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s company spent $8.8 million on his security last year

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s company spent $8.8 million on his security last year

The research team uses information gathered through methods including interviews with industry experts, client events and company filing reviews, according to the firm's website.

Zuckerberg then replied, 'I know that people use cookies on the Internet and that you can probably co-relate activities between sessions. "This is because other apps and sites don't know who is using Facebook", Baser added.

San Francisco - Facebook, embattled in a scandal over the mishandling of user data, confirmed Monday that it also collected information from people beyond their social network use.

Facebook has said that a Cambridge University lecturer named Aleksandr Kogan collected the data legitimately through a personality quiz app but then violated Facebook's terms by sharing the information with Cambridge Analytica, which was later hired by the Trump campaign during the 2016 USA presidential election. Google has a popular analytics service. "And Amazon, Google and Twitter all offer login features", Facebook said.

There are three main ways in which Facebook uses the information it gets from other websites and apps. In fact, most websites and apps send the same information to multiple companies each time you visit them. "For example, receiving data about the sites a particular browser has visited can help us identify bad actors", he posted.

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Damian Collins, chairman of the committee, asked if the goal of the survey was "to gather this information and that by completing it with your Facebook login, Cambridge Analytica also gets access to your data?" to which Ms Kaiser replied: "I believe that was the point of the quizzes in the first place, yes".

The British consultancy firm has been accused of improperly accessing the users' data in an effort to sway worldwide elections, including the 2016 US Presidential election and the Brexit referendum.

'We do that for a number of reasons including security and measuring ads to make sure that the ad experiences are most effective, which people can of-course opt out of. "I believe people own their content", he told the US Congress.

The government is "examining" the response of Facebook and British data firm Cambridge Analytica (CA) to its notice on the data-breach issue, a top official at the Ministry of Electronics and IT said on Tuesday.

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