Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica, the data analysis firm that worked on the Trump campaign

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Facebook announced late Friday that it had suspended the account of Strategic Communication Laboratories, and its political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica — which used Facebook data to target voters for President Donald Trump’s campaign in the 2016 election. In a statement released by Paul Grewal, the company’s vice president and deputy general counsel, Facebook…

Russian spy: UK to expel 23 Russian diplomats

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  The UK will expel 23 Russian diplomats after Moscow refused to explain how a Russian-made nerve agent was used on a former spy in Salisbury, the PM says. Theresa May said the diplomats, who have a week to leave, were identified as “undeclared intelligence officers”. The UK later told the UN Security Council that…

Russia could disconnect from global Internet in event of war: Putin adviser

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Moscow also building alternative Domain Name System A top information-technology adviser to President Vladimir Putin has indicated in an interview that Russia could disconnect itself from the global Internet in time of war to lessen its vulnerability to the West. “Technically, we are ready for any action now,” Herman Klimenko reportedly told Russian television station…