Cambridge Analytica and its parent company SCL have announced that they are shutting down operations. The company blames a “siege of media coverage” for the closure saying that it has driven its customers away.
Facebook has fired one of its security engineers who allegedly abused his position to inappropriately access information that was later used to stalk women online. The social media giant said that it’s currently investigating the matter.
Amazon has been taking over the retail industry with its superior tech and on Tuesday, the company launched a service that delivers packages to the trunk of your car. Amazon uses a digital app to open the trunks of client’s cars where the package will be delivered.
Google says it’s looking into a new study that revealed that thousands of children apps available on the Play Store could be tracking kids illegally without parents’ permission.
Experts agree that putting any information online, especially via Facebook, means that your data is available to the internet in its entirety.
Facebook now estimates that nearly 87 million users were affected by the data breach.