Facebook investigating data breach where names, phone numbers of over 267 million users was reportedly exposed
5 years ago

Facebook investigating data breach where names, phone numbers of over 267 million users was reportedly exposed

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The database was apparently made available for download last week on an online hacker forum that apparently belonged to a crime group. Facebook on Thursday said it is investigating a report that a database containing names and phone numbers of more than 267 million users was exposed online. Comparitech said that security researcher Bob Diachenko spotted the database, which was openly accessible and contained Facebook users’ names, user IDs, and phone numbers. As of now, it is not exactly clear how the hackers leaked into the data, however, the report suggests that there is a possibility that “data was stolen from Facebook’s developer API before the company restricted access to phone numbers in 2018.” Facebook’s API is used by app developers to add social context to their applications by accessing users’ profiles, friends list, groups, photos, and event data. The Federal Trade Commission said its investigation launched in March 2018 concluded that the now-defunct political consulting firm “engaged in deceptive practices to harvest personal information from tens of millions of Facebook users for voter profiling and targeting.” The FTC said the British firm, which worked on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, made “false and misleading” claims when it offered Facebook users a “personality quiz” – stating it would not download names or any personally identifiable information.

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EU Slaps Meta With Fine Of $263.5 Million For 2018 Security Breach That Affected 29 Million Users
3 weeks ago

EU Slaps Meta With Fine Of $263.5 Million For 2018 Security Breach That Affected 29 Million Users

ABP News  

Meta has been slapped with a hefty fine of €251 million by the European Union's data privacy watchdog in Ireland. The penalty stems from a 2018 security breach on Facebook that compromised the personal information of 29 million users. Reuters quoted DPC Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle as saying, “By allowing unauthorised exposure of profile information, the vulnerabilities behind this breach …

Facebook owner hit with 251 million euros in fines for 2018 data breach
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Facebook owner hit with 251 million euros in fines for 2018 data breach

Associated Press  

LONDON — European Union privacy watchdogs hit Facebook owner Meta with fines totaling 251 million euros on Monday after an investigation into a 2018 data breach on the social media platform that exposed millions of accounts. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission issued the penalties after wrapping up its inquiry into the breach, when hackers gained access to user accounts by exploiting …

Meta settles Cambridge Analytica lawsuit with Australia’s privacy watchdog, to pay $50 million
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3 weeks, 3 days ago

Meta settles Cambridge Analytica lawsuit with Australia’s privacy watchdog, to pay $50 million

Firstpost  

The settlement closes an expensive and drawn-out legal saga over the infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal, marking another chapter in Meta’s global reckoning for mishandling user data Australia’s privacy regulator took Meta to court in 2020, accusing the tech giant of failing to safeguard users’ personal information. The settlement closes an expensive and drawn-out legal saga over the infamous Cambridge Analytica …

Facebook asks US Supreme Court to dismiss Cambridge Analytica fraud suit over
2 months ago

Facebook asks US Supreme Court to dismiss Cambridge Analytica fraud suit over

Firstpost  

The Cambridge Analytica breach saw the personal data of over 30 million users used without permission, allegedly to sway voters during Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign The Cambridge Analytica scandal has already cost Facebook dearly. Image Credit: Reuters The US Supreme Court on Wednesday tackled Facebook’s latest attempt to dodge a federal securities fraud lawsuit, a legal headache stemming from …

Facebook faces another user data leak, researchers reveal
7 months ago

Facebook faces another user data leak, researchers reveal

India TV News  

Cybersecurity researchers have reported an alleged data leak which involve at least one lakh users of Facebook which appeared on a data breach forum. The team from CyberPeace, a New Delhi-based non-profit organisation alleged that 1,00,000 lines of fresh user data from Facebook have surfaced on a data breach forum. “Facebook faces potential reputational damage due to concerns about data …

Met Police ‘passed victims’ data to Facebook via online tracking tool’
1 year, 5 months ago

Met Police ‘passed victims’ data to Facebook via online tracking tool’

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The information, which included the type of offence being reported as well as a …

Facebook parent Meta hit with record $1.3-billion fine by EU over data privacy
1 year, 7 months ago

Facebook parent Meta hit with record $1.3-billion fine by EU over data privacy

LA Times  

The European Union has imposed a record $1.3-billion privacy fine on Meta over the transfer of user data across the Atlantic. The European Union slapped Meta with a record $1.3-billion privacy fine Monday and ordered it to stop transferring users’ personal information across the Atlantic by October, the latest salvo in a decade-long case sparked by U.S. cyber-snooping fears. Ireland’s …

Facebook must face privacy suit over Cambridge Analytica
1 year, 8 months ago

Facebook must face privacy suit over Cambridge Analytica

LA Times  

CEO Mark Zuckerberg, shown in 2019, and other former Facebook directors either went along with or turned a blind eye to privacy violations, a judge ruled. A judge ruled that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and other former directors of the social media company must face claims they turned a blind eye to rampant privacy violations, including allowing a firm hired …

Facebook users can apply for their portion of a $725 million lawsuit settlement
1 year, 8 months ago

Facebook users can apply for their portion of a $725 million lawsuit settlement

NPR  

Facebook users can apply for their portion of a $725 million lawsuit settlement Enlarge this image toggle caption Tony Avelar/AP Tony Avelar/AP Facebook users can now apply for their share of a $725 million privacy lawsuit settlement if they had accounts from May 2007 to December 2022. Facebook's parent company, Meta, is doling out the payments to settle a lawsuit …

Are You A Facebook User? You Could Get Some Settlement Cash
1 year, 8 months ago

Are You A Facebook User? You Could Get Some Settlement Cash

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Anyone in the U.S. who has had a Facebook account at any time since May 24, 2007, can now apply for their share of a $725 million privacy settlement that parent company Meta has agreed to pay. Meta is paying to settle a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social media platform allowed millions of its users’ personal …

Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle user data case
2 years ago

Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle user data case

The Hindu  

Facebook’s corporate parent has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social media platform allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump’s victorious presidential campaign in 2016. The case sprang from 2018 revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a firm with ties to Trump political …

Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle user data case
2 years ago

Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle user data case

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook’s corporate parent has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social media platform allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump’s victorious presidential campaign in 2016. The case sprang from 2018 revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a firm with ties …

Meta agrees to settle Cambridge Analytica lawsuit for a record $725 million
2 years ago

Meta agrees to settle Cambridge Analytica lawsuit for a record $725 million

Firstpost  

The $725 million settlement in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, will see that Meta, once again, admits to no wrongdoing and get away with irresponsibly handling user data. In a year which saw them lose some of the platform’s most avid advertisers, as well as an abysmal failure of their star Metaverse project, Horizon Worlds, Meta will now have to …

Facebook parent Meta to settle Cambridge Analytica scandal case for $725 million
2 years ago

Facebook parent Meta to settle Cambridge Analytica scandal case for $725 million

Live Mint  

Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc has agreed to pay $725 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing the social media giant of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users' personal information. The proposed settlement, which was disclosed in a court filing late on Thursday, would resolve a long-running lawsuit prompted by revelations in 2018 that Facebook had allowed …

Facebook parent Meta to pay $725 million to settle lawsuit relating to Cambridge Analytica
2 years ago

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

Hindustan Times  

Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc has agreed to pay $725 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing the social media giant of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users' personal information. The proposed settlement, which was disclosed in a court filing late on Thursday, would resolve a long-running lawsuit prompted by revelations in 2018 that Facebook had allowed …

Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle a privacy suit over Cambridge Analytica
2 years ago

Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle a privacy suit over Cambridge Analytica

NPR  

Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle a privacy suit over Cambridge Analytica Enlarge this image toggle caption Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Facebook parent company Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit claiming it improperly shared users' information with Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm used by the Trump campaign. This is …

What does Facebook’s settlement in the Cambridge Analytica lawsuit mean for the platform?
2 years, 4 months ago

What does Facebook’s settlement in the Cambridge Analytica lawsuit mean for the platform?

The Hindu  

The story so far: A San Francisco court filing on August 26 revealed that Facebook has agreed to settle the Cambridge Analytica privacy lawsuit. A probe revealed the extent to which a London-based data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, misused data from as many as 50 million Facebook users. Mr. Zuckerberg later apologised for the “breach of trust” while Ms. Sandberg …

Facebook agrees to settle Cambridge Analytica privacy suit
2 years, 4 months ago

Facebook agrees to settle Cambridge Analytica privacy suit

The Hindu  

Facebook has reached a preliminary agreement in a long-running lawsuit seeking damages from the social network for allowing third parties, including the company Cambridge Analytica, to access users' private data. In a lawsuit initiated in 2018, Facebook users accused the social network of violating privacy rules by sharing their data with third parties including the firm Cambridge Analytica, which was …

Facebook parent settles suit in Cambridge Analytica scandal
2 years, 4 months ago

Facebook parent settles suit in Cambridge Analytica scandal

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook’s corporate parent has reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social network service allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump’s victorious presidential campaign in 2016. Terms of the settlement reached by Meta Platforms, the holding company for Facebook and Instagram, …

DC sues Zuckerberg over Cambridge Analytica privacy breach
2 years, 7 months ago

DC sues Zuckerberg over Cambridge Analytica privacy breach

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia on Monday sued Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, seeking to hold him personally liable for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a privacy breach of millions of Facebook users’ personal data that became a major corporate and political scandal. The lawsuit maintains that Zuckerberg directly participated in important company decisions and was aware of the potential dangers …

FB whistleblower calls for regulation
3 years, 3 months ago

FB whistleblower calls for regulation

The Hindu  

A Facebook whistleblower went before U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday to push them to regulate the social media giant, after an outage hit potentially billions of users and highlighted global dependence on its services. She spoke to Senators less than a day after Facebook, its photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp went offline for roughly seven hours, with “billions of …

Explained | How Facebook’s recent data breach affect its users
3 years, 8 months ago

Explained | How Facebook’s recent data breach affect its users

The Hindu  

Facebook has suffered yet another data breach, only this time, private information from 533 million accounts have been leaked online. Even the company’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s private credentials are part of the larger leaked data set from 2019. Private information of users was primarily obtained by exploiting Facebook’s contact importer feature that allows users to find friends on …

Ireland launches inquiry into Facebook after reports of data leak
3 years, 8 months ago

Ireland launches inquiry into Facebook after reports of data leak

The Hindu  

Ireland's Data Protection Commission said on Wednesday it had launched an inquiry into Facebook Inc, after a dataset reported to contain personal data relating to some 533 million Facebook users worldwide was made public. Facebook said in a blog post last week that "malicious actors" had obtained the data prior to September 2019 by "scraping" profiles using a vulnerability in …

Personal data of 500 million LinkedIn users leaked online
3 years, 9 months ago

Personal data of 500 million LinkedIn users leaked online

India Today  

Only a couple of days ago, Facebook was involved in a massive data breach that compromised the personal data of 533 million users. As per reports, over 500 million LinkedIn users' data were compromised in a huge data leak. As per CyberNews, Linkedin has been a part of a massive data breach that has exposed crucial data of 500 million …

What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak?
55 years ago

What Really Caused Facebook's 500M-User Data Leak?

Wired  

Since Saturday, a massive trove of Facebook data has circulated publicly, splashing information from roughly 533 million Facebook users across the internet. Or was it the 419 million Facebook user records, including hundreds of millions of phone numbers, names, and Facebook IDs, scraped from the social network by bad actors before a 2018 Facebook policy change, that were exposed publicly …

Facebook Data Leak: How to Check if Your Phone Number, Email Have Been Breached
3 years, 9 months ago

Facebook Data Leak: How to Check if Your Phone Number, Email Have Been Breached

News 18  

The Facebook data leak of 2021 has been one of the biggest of its kind, with data belonging to a staggering 533 million users being listed online across hacking forums. Now, noted cyber security researcher Troy Hunt, who has been hailed for his work with Have I Been Pwned, has updated the database of his website with entries of the …

Facebook data leak: Personal details of over 61 lakh Indians on sale by hackers
3 years, 9 months ago

Facebook data leak: Personal details of over 61 lakh Indians on sale by hackers

Op India  

A massive data dump of 533 million global Facebook users has been leaked and making rounds on hacker forums. As per the posts by threat actors who leaked the data, it contains user names, birthdays, phone numbers, users’ unique identifiers, emails, relationship statuses, occupation, account creation dates and more. Though he could not find data of anyone from his family, …

Facebook data leak includes personal info of 6 million users in India, the story so far
3 years, 9 months ago

Facebook data leak includes personal info of 6 million users in India, the story so far

India Today  

The latest Facebook data breach is claimed to have leaked the personal data of over 533 million users globally. In a country-wise breakup, the claimed data breach reportedly includes the personal information of 6 million users in India. Alon Gal, CTO of cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, posted information around the data breach that is said to have leaked data …

Explained: Leaked Data of 533mn Facebook Users Reemerges Online, Why FB's Reply is Unconvincing
3 years, 9 months ago

Explained: Leaked Data of 533mn Facebook Users Reemerges Online, Why FB's Reply is Unconvincing

News 18  

Facebook is back in the limelight for all the wrong reasons, and this time, a new report claims that the personal data of over 533 million users have surfaced on a hacker forum, practically for free of cost. Both the Business Insider team and Gal reportedly reviewed a sample of the leaked data and verified several records by matching known …

Phone Numbers, Private Info of 500 Million Facebook Users Leaked, Company Says Issue Fixed in 2019
3 years, 9 months ago

Phone Numbers, Private Info of 500 Million Facebook Users Leaked, Company Says Issue Fixed in 2019

News 18  

A leaker says they are offering information on more than 500 million Facebook users – including phone numbers and other data – virtually for free. The database appears to be the same set of Facebook-linked telephone numbers that has been circulating in hacker circles since January and whose existence was first reported by tech publication Motherboard, according to Alon Gal, …

Facebook data on more than 500 million accounts found online
3 years, 9 months ago

Facebook data on more than 500 million accounts found online

The Hindu  

Details from more than 500 million Facebook users have been found available on a website for hackers. According to that publication, it has information from 106 countries including phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, and email addresses. In 2018, the social media giant disabled a feature that allowed users to search for one another via phone number following …

Facebook Data On More Than 500M Accounts Found Online
3 years, 9 months ago

Facebook Data On More Than 500M Accounts Found Online

News 18  

Details from more than 500 million Facebook users have been found available on a website for hackers. According to that publication, it has info from 106 countries including phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, and email addresses. In 2018, the social media giant disabled a feature that allowed users to search for one another via phone number following …

Facebook faces new UK class action
3 years, 11 months ago

Facebook faces new UK class action

The Hindu  

Facebook is facing a second London High Court class action over allegations it failed to protect the personal details of about one million people in England and Wales, in the latest lawsuit to spring from a scandal over data harvesting. Journalist and writer Peter Jukes said on Tuesday he had filed a lawsuit for unspecified but "substantial" damages three years …

CBI books Cambridge Analytica over Facebook data theft
3 years, 11 months ago

CBI books Cambridge Analytica over Facebook data theft

Hindustan Times  

The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against Alexander Nix of British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica and Aleksandr Kogan of Global Science Research Limited, UK, for allegedly harvesting personal data of up to 562,000 Indians from Facebook for commercial purposes, officials said on Friday. The agency said that the app illegally collected additional unauthorised data of users …

CBI files case against Cambridge Analytica, Global Science Research for illegal harvesting of Facebook users' data
3 years, 11 months ago

CBI files case against Cambridge Analytica, Global Science Research for illegal harvesting of Facebook users' data

Firstpost  

After nearly 18 months of preliminary enquiry, the CBI has booked the UK-based Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research for alleged illegal harvesting of data of 5.62 lakh Indian Facebook users for profiteering and manipulating elections, officials said Friday. The agency registered case against Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research represented by Aleksandr Kogan, both based in the UK, under …

CBI Registers Case Against Cambridge Analytica, Global Science Research for Illegal Data Harvesting
3 years, 11 months ago

CBI Registers Case Against Cambridge Analytica, Global Science Research for Illegal Data Harvesting

News 18  

The Central Bureau of Investigation has booked UK-based Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research Ltd for illegally harvesting data of Facebook users in India for commercial purposes, officials said on Friday. The action came after a preliminary enquiry into the matter which showed that Global Science Research had created an app “thisisyourdigitallife” which was authorised by Facebook to collect specific …

CBI books Cambridge Analytica, Global Science Research for illegally harvesting data of Facebook users
3 years, 11 months ago

CBI books Cambridge Analytica, Global Science Research for illegally harvesting data of Facebook users

India TV News  

The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a case against UK-based Cambridge Analytica and Global Science Research Ltd. It alleged that they were involved in illegal harvesting of personal data of 5.62 lakh Indian Facebook users for commercial purposes. The CBI's action came after a preliminary enquiry into the matter which showed that Global Science Research had created an app …

Data of 5.62 lakh Indian Facebook users stolen, CBI books Cambridge Analytica
3 years, 11 months ago

Data of 5.62 lakh Indian Facebook users stolen, CBI books Cambridge Analytica

India Today  

The Central Bureau of Investigation has lodged an FIR against Cambridge Analytica Limited and Global Science Private Limited in connection with data theft of 5.62 lakh Facebook users in India. Facebook in response had replied, “Data of 5.62 lakh Indians users might have been illegally harvested." Cambridge Analytica on the other hand responded that ”they only received data of UK …

User data of millions of Indians put on sale online, advertised on Facebook
4 years, 4 months ago

User data of millions of Indians put on sale online, advertised on Facebook

India Today  

Purported data, including names, emails and phone numbers, of millions of Indian users have been put online for a flat price of Rs 850, India Today has learnt. "We can confirm that there has been no breach of our database and all our user information is secure," a Truecaller spokesperson told India Today. Speaking to India Today, independent cyber security …

Facebook — The beleaguered king of social media
4 years, 4 months ago

Facebook — The beleaguered king of social media

The Hindu  

A recent article in The Wall Street Journal spoke of a political problem in Facebook’s India operations that hit home hard. Editorial | Data power: On Facebook and BJP India, as the biggest market for the company’s eponymous social media platform and its messaging utility WhatsApp, is widely exposed to the data-sucking machines that operate behind the friendly facades of …

What happened to Cambridge Analytica and Facebook data theft case
4 years, 4 months ago

What happened to Cambridge Analytica and Facebook data theft case

India Today  

On Friday, a report in an international daily, Wall Street Journal, alleged that Facebook was biased in its functioning in India as it ignored its hate speech policy and allowed anti-Muslim posts on its platform. The uproar over Facebook and Cambridge Analytica started in early 2018 when few reports suggested that Facebook data of Indian users was ‘stolen’ to influence …

Facebook users owed damages for privacy violations: Consumer watchdog
4 years, 6 months ago

Facebook users owed damages for privacy violations: Consumer watchdog

NL Times  

Consumers' association Consumentenbond and data privacy foundation DPS are starting a procedure to demand that Facebook compensate Netherlands users for violating their privacy. According to the watchdogs, Facebook users in the Netherlands deserve compensation because Facebook earned money off their private data without their knowledge or consent. According to the consumers' association, Facebook earned millions by selling users' private data …

Facebook acknowledges that it shared data of some inactive users with third-party apps, says the issue has now been fixed
4 years, 6 months ago

Facebook acknowledges that it shared data of some inactive users with third-party apps, says the issue has now been fixed

Firstpost  

Facebook says that from the past several months, approximately 5,000 developers continued to receive user data even after they were inactive for over 90 days. Facebook says that from the past several months, approximately 5,000 third-party app developers continued to receive the data that people had previously authorised, even after they were inactive on Facebook for over 90 days. Facebook …

A 14-Year ‘Timeline’: Facebook’s Roller-Coaster India Journey
4 years, 8 months ago

A 14-Year ‘Timeline’: Facebook’s Roller-Coaster India Journey

The Quint  

Cambridge Analytica was perhaps the biggest data breach scandal to hit the social media giant and one that was intricately linked to the alleged interference into the 2016 US presidential elections. Cambridge Analytica harvested the personal data of millions of people's Facebook profiles without their consent and used it for political advertising. Facebook admitted that personal data of 5 lakh …

Facebook sues data analytics firm for harvesting users data
4 years, 10 months ago

Facebook sues data analytics firm for harvesting users data

The Hindu  

Facebook has filed a federal lawsuit in California court against New Jersey-based data analytics firm OneAudience for secretly harvesting its users’ data. According to the lawsuit, OneAudience improperly accessed and collected user data from Facebook and other social media companies by paying App developers to install a malicious Software Development Kit in their apps. In November last year, Facebook and …

Brazil fines Facebook $1.6 mn for improper sharing of user data
5 years ago

Brazil fines Facebook $1.6 mn for improper sharing of user data

The Hindu  

Brazil’s Ministry of Justice said on Monday it fined U.S. tech giant Facebook Inc 6.6 million reais for improperly sharing user data. The ministry’s department of consumer protection said it had found that data from 4,43,000 Facebook users was improperly made available to developers of an App called ‘thisisyourdigitallife.’ The data was being shared for “questionable” purposes, the ministry said …

Brazil fines Facebook $1.6 million for improper sharing of user data
5 years ago

Brazil fines Facebook $1.6 million for improper sharing of user data

The Hindu  

Brazil's Ministry of Justice said on Monday it fined U.S. tech giant Facebook Inc 6.6 million reais for improperly sharing user data. The ministry's department of consumer protection said it had found that data from 443,000 Facebook users was improperly made available to developers of an App called ”thisisyourdigitallife.” The data was being shared for “questionable” purposes, the ministry said …

Facebook, Google under scrutiny by the EU on data collection, monetisation practises
5 years, 1 month ago

Facebook, Google under scrutiny by the EU on data collection, monetisation practises

Firstpost  

The EU executive said it had sent out questionnaires as part of preliminary investigations into both Facebook and Google’s data. EU antitrust regulators are investigating how Facebook collects and monetises its data, the European Commission said on Monday, opening a second front on top of an existing probe into the social media giant’s online marketplace. A questionnaire seen by Reuters …

Google and Facebook run into more trouble over data in Europe
5 years, 1 month ago

Google and Facebook run into more trouble over data in Europe

CNN  

London CNN Business — Europe’s top antitrust regulator is probing how Google and Facebook use data, putting the companies’ huge advertising businesses in the spotlight once again. The European Commission said Monday that it has launched preliminary investigations into how Google and Facebook gather, process, use and monetize data for advertising purposes. Margrethe Vestager, the European commissioner for competition, has …

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