The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection confirmed Monday that has undertaken a non-public investigation into Facebook's data practices, according to a statement from Tom Pahl, the agency's acting director. The announcement comes just over a week after The New York Times and the The Guardian published explosive reports about the reported improper use of data belonging to 50 million Facebook users by the Trump-campaign affiliated data firm Cambridge Analytica. This isn't the first time the FTC has investigated the social network's data practices. In 2011, Facebook agreed to settle charges--though admitted no actual fault--that it "deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public," among other overreaches. The settlement barred Facebook from making further deceptive privacy claims, required it obtain a user's explicit approval before changing the way it handles their data, and mandated that Facebook receive periodic assessments of its privacy practices by third-party auditors for the next 20 years.

British data firm Cambridge Analytica allegedly sent foreigners to the U.S. to provide campaign advice to Republicans. Nathan Rousseau Smith has the story. In the aftermath of Facebook's data miscues, two more tech giants agree there's a need for better regulations to protect personal data shared online. Speaking at the three-day China Development Forum in Beijing, Apple CEO Tim Cook and IBM CEO Ginni Rometty both called for additional protections for user data. "I'm personally not a big fan of regulation because sometimes regulation can have unexpected consequences to it, however I think this certain situation is so dire, and has become so large, that probably some well-crafted regulation is necessary," said Cook, according to a report on the event from Reuters.

In the last years, Sentiment Analysis has become a hot-trend topic of scientific and market research in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning. Below, you can find 5 useful things you need to know about Sentiment Analysis that are connected to Social Media, Datasets, Machine Learning, Visualizations, and Evaluation Methods applied by researchers and market experts. Sentiment Analysis examines the problem of studying texts, like posts and reviews, uploaded by users on microblogging platforms, forums, and electronic businesses, regarding the opinions they have about a product, service, event, person or idea. The most common use of Sentiment Analysis is this of classifying a text to a class. Depending on the dataset and the reason, Sentiment Classification can be binary (positive or negative) or multi-class (3 or more classes) problem.

A copy of'The Observer' shows an advertisement paid by Facebook in London, March 25, 2018. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg apologized for a "breach of trust" involving misused data from millions of Facebook users. The ads also appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. SAN FRANCISCO -- As Facebook continues to buffet winds of criticism, its founder took out full page ads in U.S. and British newspapers Sunday to apologize to consumers for not properly securing their personal data. "This was a breach of trust, and I'm sorry we didn't do more at the time," Mark Zuckerberg said in the signed ad, which was published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and six British papers.

Qemotion asks users to submit a text using API and the algorithm will detect the main emotion of the speech and will define the corresponding emotion in terms of temperature (literally temperature).

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With all the news about Facebook recently, you might be wondering, what exactly does Facebook know about me from my profile? Sure, you can peruse your profile online, but that doesn't tell the whole story. One way to see what Facebook has on you is to download your Facebook data. The ability to download your Facebook data isn't really new, but not many users know that you can do it. It only takes a few minutes; how long depends on how big your data files are.

US software giant Mozilla and Germany's Commerzbank have both said they will pull advertising from Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica affair. The social network has been under fire all week over revelations that the political consultancy harvested private data from the Facebook profiles of 50m Americans and handed it on to the Donald Trump campaign for use in the micro-targeting of swing voters during the 2016 US presidential election. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has since apologised and volunteered to testify before Congress, conceding: "We made mistakes". Chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said the site would be "open to regulation" as it seeks to rebuild public trust over the handling of users' information and accusations that Russian bots were engaged in the spread of "fake news" and misinformation across its pages in a bid to sway the race for the White House. Writing in a blog post, Mozilla CEO Denelle Dixon said the company was "pressing pause" on its Facebook advertising.

If most people were asked how much their privacy is worth, they'd likely say it's priceless. User logins for many of the most popular apps sell for next to nothing on the dark web, a shadowy corner of the internet that's frequented by criminals, drug users, arms dealers and is often the grounds for all kinds of illicit activities. Now, a recent report from content marketing agency Fractl has found out just how much your data is worth on the dark web. A report from content marketing agency Fractl has found out how much your data is worth on the dark web, including your Facebook login, which can be purchased for just $5.20 The price of user privacy has been cast into the spotlight in the wake of Facebook's massive data scandal, which led to 50 million users' data being harvested without their knowledge. Facebook has since announced that it would notify all users whose data was misused by British research firm Cambridge Analytica or any app developers who are found to have mismanaged users' personal information.

For a spell during 2010 and 2011, I was a virtual rancher of clickable cattle on Facebook. It feels like a long time ago. Obama was serving his first term as president. Google hadn't arrived, let alone vanished again. Steve Jobs was still alive, as was Kim Jong Il.