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Cambridge University rejected Facebook study over ‘deceptive’ privacy standards

Exclusive: panel told researcher Aleksandr Kogan that Facebook’s approach fell ‘far below ethical expectations’

Facebook in ‘PR crisis mode’ over Cambridge Analytica scandal

Academic behind app that mined data from users tells MPs social network’s outrage was hollow

Tech firms could face new EU regulations over fake news

EU security commissioner says new regulations may have to be brought in if tech firms fail to tackle issues voluntarily

How academic at centre of Facebook scandal tried – and failed – to spin personal data into gold

The story of Aleksandr Kogan’s business ventures reveals a world where companies traded in the currency of personal information

Facebook urged to use face recognition to block scam ads

Media committee chair says Martin Lewis’s case shows yet another failure to protect users

Facebook says its free news feed is helping journalism

Company tells Australian regulator that news makes up just 5% of content shared, and downplays its collection and use of people’s data

The Guardian view on ad tech: a tangled web

Editorial: Martin Lewis is suing Facebook. The question is whether companies can be held responsible for the behaviour of their software

Martin Lewis is right to take on Facebook – it has too much power

As some publishers try to clean up rogue online advertising, the platform has been slow to act. Time for regulation, says freelance journalist Ellie Mae O’Hagan

Flickr bought by SmugMug as Yahoo breakup begins

Photo-sharing pioneer and web cultural beacon now part of independent, family-run firm

Martin Lewis sues Facebook over fake adverts with his name

MoneySavingExpert founder says firm failed to stop false adverts luring victims into scams

Ukip may have collapsed, but where it led others will follow

The party pioneered online activism and demonstrated how anti-immigration nastiness can shape the wider debate, writes Guardian columnist John Harris

Proper pubs are all a little bit rightwing, aren’t they?

On the news that pub chain Wetherspoon’s was to close down its social media accounts, I was surprised to find myself rooting for it

What Facebook’s terms and conditions really ought to say

In the wake of Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘grilling’ by Congress, here’s a rewritten user agreement that makes what the social network does painfully clear

How firms you have never interacted with can target your Facebook

Advertisers are seemingly able to access accounts with no input from the user

Facebook and Google must be held to account, TV networks say

Australian TV lobby says digital giants do not ‘contribute in any meaningful way towards cost of the content they monetise’

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  • Hold the Fort review – gory goings-on at the neighbours association get-together
  • Deja viewing: the return of the cheapo compilation film
  • ‘Who is going to pay us when we’re replaced by robots?’ The Indian factory workers told to film themselves for AI
  • Nine considers Karl Stefanovic’s future after podcast with UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson
  • Chinese supercomputer leapfrogs best US machines to be ranked world’s fastest
  • Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham have met away from No 10 to discuss transition – as it happened
  • Quantum of Solace: a heartbroken James Bond is fuelled by rage in Daniel Craig’s most underrated 007 film
  • US AI stock sell-off shakes markets from Wall Street to Asia
  • You’re only supposed to blow the bloody hooves off: AI Michael Caine narrates Odyssey audiobook
  • Will California’s billionaire tax proposal make it to ballots?
  • AI in the classroom prompts tide of concern from US parents and experts
  • How to Live on Earth review – Benedict Cumberbatch exudes positivity in response to the climate crisis
  • Majority of datacenters are vulnerable to climate threats like floods and fires, study finds
  • Australia ‘sleepwalking’ into AI crisis and ‘tech bro free-for-all’, says Greens senator
  • Sizzle reels: nine films to watch in a heatwave
  • ‘I’ve had a huge life, so I needed a big budget’: Madonna says biopic was scrapped after ‘falling out’ with studio
  • Rory Kennedy revisits Boeing in new film sparked by whistleblower’s death: ‘We’ve got to stay at this’
  • 500 Miles review – kids hit the road to visit Irish grandad Bill Nighy in YA tearjerker
  • ‘Climate change is a form of oppression’: the voices affected most by environmental crisis
  • The Morrigan review – spirit of pagan demon queen unleashed in Irish burial chamber horror
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  • Landship review – soldiers yearn for tinned meat in muddy first world war drama that stays inside the tank
  • Self-doubt, burnout … and Taylor Swift: why Toy Story 5 is the ultimate millennial girl movie
  • Lost memoir of Hiroshima survivor found after decades in US archive
  • Met to expand use of live facial recognition into central London by Christmas
  • UK plans to give established media more visibility on YouTube and TikTok
  • HR consultant wins English court case using AI lawyer in apparent legal first
  • Two Britons plead guilty to £39m 2024 cyber-attack on Transport for London
  • The best LED face masks in the UK, tested: 11 light therapy devices that are worth the hype

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