Cambridge Analytica has filed for bankruptcy and couldn’t settle the FTC’s allegations. But its former CEO as well as the person who developed the malicious app have settled.

The FTC reported that Cambridge Analytica harvested data directly from 250,000–270,000 users on Facebook directly, then millions more by association with the original 250k+ users.

The FTC issued a unanimous opinion on Friday confirming allegations made in a July administrative complaint that alleged app developer Aleksandr Kogan and Cambridge Analytica's former CEO ...

In an opinion released Friday, the FTC said app developer Aleksandr Kogan worked with Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix to enable Kogan's research app to collect Facebook data from users and ...

The FTC started looking into Facebook last March, after news reports that Facebook had allowed Cambridge Analytica, a social media data firm that worked on President Trump's 2016 campaign, to ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a unanimous ruling against Cambridge Analytica on Friday, saying the company engaged in “deceptive practices” by harvesting personal data from ...

Some people may have agreed to let Cambridge Analytica obtain their data, but their friends certainly didn’t, and now the FTC wants answers. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is one of the ...

Following revelations about Cambridge Analytica, a political marketing firm that improperly obtained personal information from approximately 87 million Facebook user profiles, the FTC announced ...

Separate from the FTC matter, Facebook is in advanced talks with a group of states to resolve investigations into whether the Cambridge Analytica incident violated local consumer-protection laws ...

Facebook argued that none of its users were harmed as a result of the Cambridge Analytica scandal in a memo the company sent to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the months before the agency ...

Under the terms of the FTC’s order issued today, Cambridge Analytica is required to delete any data it collected on Facebook users, and to not make misrepresentations in the future about how it ...