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Facebook users to receive privacy settlement payouts; How much you could get?

The Facebook settlement, which was first approved in 2023 but was delayed by judicial appeals, reached its conclusion this May. (AP)

Published on Sept 10, 2025 08:38 pm IST

Mark Zuckerberg on biggest career mistake he made: ‘I look back and regret…’

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted to a major career misstep, labeling it a political miscalculation. He reflected on Facebook's struggles with content moderation and expressed regret for not addressing government pressure during the 2016 election, promising to push back in the future.

Published on Sept 17, 2024 08:45 am IST

Meta to pay $725 million to settle lawsuit relating to Cambridge Analytica

Facebook is owned by Meta platforms.(Reuters)

Updated on Feb 28, 2023 09:17 pm IST

CBI books Cambridge Analytica over Facebook data theft

The agency said that the app illegally collected additional unauthorised data of users as well as their friends’ network on Facebook; in all, data of 335 users and their network of 562,000 of their friends were compromised.(File photo)

Updated on Jan 23, 2021 04:52 am IST

CBI files case against Cambridge Analytica, Global Science: Key points

The nameplate of political consultancy, Cambridge Analytica, is seen in central London, Britain. (Reuters File Photo)

Updated on Jan 22, 2021 01:55 pm IST

Financially troubled startup modelled after Cambridge Analytica helped power Trump campaign

While the campaign may be winding down, the data strategy is very much alive, and the digital details the app collected can be put to multiple other uses(AP)

Updated on Nov 18, 2020 02:10 pm IST

Ex-CEO of Cambridge Analytica banned from running cos for seven years

Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica arrives at the offices of Cambridge Analytica in central London on March 20, 2018.(Reuters file)

Updated on Sept 24, 2020 06:00 pm IST

Political slugfest over Facebook intensifies

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged that Facebook in India is controlled by BJP.(PTI File Photo)

Updated on Aug 17, 2020 12:53 am IST

Facebook agrees to pay 500,000 pound fine to UK over Cambridge Analytica

Facebook has agreed to pay 500,000 pound fine as part of a settlement with UK’s data protection watchdog over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.(Reuters File Photo)

Updated on Oct 31, 2019 10:29 am IST

Facebook suspends ‘tens of thousands’ of apps in privacy review

Facebook suspended “tens of thousands” of apps on its platform as a result of its review on privacy.(Reuters Photo)

Published on Sept 21, 2019 06:56 am IST

Major scrutiny awaits for Big Tech

The logos of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google are seen in a combination photo from Reuters files.(REUTERS/File Photo)

Published on Jul 25, 2019 11:16 am IST

Facebook Doesn’t Know If You’re Psychotic

The study has been carried out by researchers at Penn Medicine and Stony Brook University.(Unsplash)

Updated on Jul 03, 2019 12:39 pm IST

‘Have to seriously take look at breaking up Facebook’: Indian-origin US senator Kamala Harris

Harris, Senator from California where all the major US tech giants are based, said that Facebook has experienced massive growth and has prioritised its growth consumers’ interests, especially on privacy, she said.(AFP)

Updated on May 13, 2019 02:23 pm IST

Keep a watch on Facebook’s plans

Founder Mark Zuckerberg, in(AFP)

Updated on May 10, 2019 07:36 pm IST

Facebook spends $22.6 million to keep Mark Zuckerberg safe

Facebook has in the past few years faced public outcry over its role in Russia’s alleged influence on the 2016 US presidential election and has come under fire following revelations that Cambridge Analytica obtained personal data from millions of Facebook profiles without consent.(AP File Photo)

Updated on Apr 13, 2019 01:19 pm IST

Facebook can’t behave like ‘digital gangster’, says UK report

Updated on Feb 18, 2019 06:28 pm IST

The 29-year-old who rocked Facebook has big data plans for H&M

At H&M, 29-year-old Christopher Wylie will help the company use big data and artificial intelligence to make sure it actually designs things shoppers want.(Christopher Wylie)

Updated on Feb 01, 2019 07:41 am IST

Privacy laws cannot make Facebeook and Google accountable

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc., speaks in a conference in the US. While 2018 was the year of amazing investigations on Facebook, there have been grave let-downs in reporting and analysis.(Bloomberg)

Updated on Jan 03, 2019 07:38 am IST

India’s data protection law: Strengthen rules but also follow through to the last mile

While it remains to be proven, the violations checklist in the US case against Facebook is indicative of what is in store for users of many an online platform – from allegations of misleading privacy settings to indiscriminate sharing of data with third parties and failure to disclose data breach, the list covers them all. The conspectus of the averments primarily brings to the fore the abject absence of choice and consent.(Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Updated on Dec 31, 2018 09:56 am IST

Facebook sued by US lawyer over Cambridge Analytica data scandal

Updated on Dec 20, 2018 08:53 am IST

Facebook gave tech giants, including Netflix, access to users’ private messages: Reports

Updated on Dec 19, 2018 04:20 pm IST

Facebook vied to conceal Russia meddling in 2016 US presidential election: Report

Facebook misled the public about its knowledge of Russian hackers’ use of the powerful platform to meddle in the 2016 US presidential election, a New York Times investigation reported Thursday.(REUTERS)

Updated on Nov 15, 2018 06:33 pm IST

Facebook to launch political ads archive before 2019 polls

New Delhi, India - Oct. 6, 2018: Richard Allan, VP Policy Solutions, Facebook during the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit at Taj Palace in New Delhi, India, on Saturday, October 6, 2018.(HT PHOTO)

Updated on Oct 07, 2018 07:10 am IST

Attempts to sway polls with tech biggest challenge: Chief election commissioner OP Rawat

Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat addresses a conference in New Delhi.(PTI File Photo)

Updated on Oct 01, 2018 07:50 am IST

CBI writes to Facebook, Cambridge Analytica over data theft: Report

The nameplate of political consultancy, Cambridge Analytica, is seen in central London, Britain.(Reuters File Photo)

Updated on Sept 17, 2018 07:55 pm IST

Won’t allow social media to hurt India’s election process, says government

The comments come amid worry that data of users on web services such as Facebook and Twitter can be mined and misused in order to influence poll outcomes.(Reuters File Photo)

Updated on Aug 27, 2018 11:18 am IST

Facebook data breach: CBI begins preliminary enquiry against Cambridge Analytica, GSR

The CBI has initiated a preliminary enquiry against Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research for alleged illegal personal data harvesting of Indians from Facebook, officials said on Wednesday.(Reuters Photo)

Published on Aug 08, 2018 08:00 pm IST

UK MPs seek social media curbs to fight fake news

(Representative image)

Updated on Jul 29, 2018 02:55 pm IST

Data protection bill will hold tech companies such as Facebook, Google accountable for users’ information

The focus on data protection comes after the scandal in March over access gained by political marketing firm Cambridge Analytica to user’s data collected through Facebook.

Updated on Jul 28, 2018 09:04 am IST

India moves closer to first data privacy law as Srikrishna panel submits report, focus on individual users’ consent

A report submitted by a panel headed by Justice BN Srikrishna makes individual consent the centrepiece of data sharing, awards rights to users, imposes obligations on “data fiduciaries”.(AFP File Photo/Representative image)

Updated on Jul 28, 2018 09:13 am IST

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