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on October 30, 2020

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Cambridge Analytics and Facebook Case study-Conclusion

In conclusion, this scandal got the whole word questioning whether our online data is safe or not. Facebook admitted guilty in allowing the information to be harvested but promised that it would not happen again and that the user would have more control of their data. Since then, Facebook has been working in keep the user data more accessible to the user and giving more control to user decide if their information can be shared and with who it can be shared. (Ma and Gilbert, 2019) Cambridge Analytica has denied in getting data from Facebook as it breaks the terms and conditions of Facebook. However, the information given by the whistleblower was more than compelling. Therefore both companies got fined in millions of pounds. (Ma and Gilbert, 2019) This event made the laws on data in Europe a lot tighter then what they used to be. With that GDPR came along in response to this event(if you want to read more about GDPR I have a whole post about it), making our data safer not only onlin...

Project idea 2- Body

Data protection- Breaking the Law. Force Entry After Yahoo big scandal in 2013 and 2014, the FBI( Federal Bureau of Investigation) took three years to identify the four people responsible for the attack and was discovered that two of the men in the attack were Russians spies, FBI explained how the attack happened in a statement:" The hack began with a spear-phishing email sent in early 2014 to a Yahoo company employee. It's unclear how many employees were targeted and how many emails were sent, but it only takes one person to click on a link. It happened.".(Williams, 2020) The FBI also found out what they were after: "So he wouldn't lose access, he installed a backdoor on a Yahoo server that would allow him access, and in December he stole a backup copy of Yahoo's user database and transferred it to his own computer. The database contained names, phone numbers, password challenge questions and answers and, crucially, password recovery emails and a cryptog...

Welcome to my journey

Hi there It is a pleasure to have you here, and I hope that you enjoy that journey that we are about to get into. The intention of this Blog is to share my experience and research during my academic journey at DMU University, In this blog, I will sharing my ideas, experience and anything else that I get to learn and do during this amazing time. We will be looking at all the areas that Computer Science cover as a degree and give some tips and some of the topics, hoping that I will not learn myself but also help someone out there. Now sit back and enjoy that journey with me.

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