They wrote said archive will contain “additional information like the amount spent and demographic audience information for each ad”. Facebook will mail them a letter with a special code to confirm the address.
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Facebook has been building a stricter ads policy ever since they identified Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.
“From now on, every advertiser who wants to run political or issue ads will need to be verified”. We will also label them and advertisers will have to show who paid for them. Some advertisers and users have left Facebook, although the company has said it hasn’t been a significant number yet.
The ads will be put into a searchable database, which will be released in June. Now however, the company plans to stop its medical data sharing plan.
For a proposed research project, Facebook asked several hospitals in America to share data about their patients, including information about their illnesses and prescriptions.
Facebook will soon require political campaigns, advocacy groups and other entities that purchase ads about hot-button policy debates to disclose more information about themselves, as the social giant looks to prevent malicious actors from secretly spreading disinformation on its site.
With Facebook caught in the act of retracting messages sent by Mark Zuckerberg, the company is perhaps trying to assuage users with an announcement for an unusual new feature, according to Tech Crunch’s Josh Constine. However, their own replies remain in the inbox.
You will be able to find out if you were breached on Monday, and if you were you can then take matters further.
However, On Friday, Facebook in its defense told TechCrunch that it would be rolling out the “unsend” feature to all users in the coming months. “We will now be making a broader delete message feature available”.
Cambridge Analytica said in a statement last week that it had “subcontracted some digital marketing and software development to Aggregate IQ in 2014 and 2015”, and added, “The suggestion that Cambridge Analytica was somehow involved in any work done by Aggregate IQ in the 2016 European Union referendum is entirely false”.
In addition, the 87 million users who might have had their data shared with Cambridge Analytica will get a more detailed message informing them of this.
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Cambridge Analytica, in its turn, stated that Wylie had been a part-time contractor and left the company in July 2014, so he had no direct knowledge of the company’s work since that. “We do not have an opt-out at the highest level”, Sandberg said.
