Trump campaign-linked data firm Cambridge Analytica reportedly collected info on 50M Facebook profil
- Author:chinatopwin
- Source:chinatopwin
- Release on:2018-03-19
campaign, but may have indeed greatly downplayed the scale of the data that firm actually had
access to, according to a new report in The New York Times.
Cambridge Analytica had worked with University of Cambridge psychology professor named Dr.
Cambridge Analytica had worked with University of Cambridge psychology professor named Dr.
Aleksandr Kogan, who had developed an app called “thisisyourdigitallife” and obtained user
information — which the Times is reporting scooped up information on profiles of as many as
50 million users. Late Friday, Facebook acknowledged that 270,000 people downloaded the
app, which used Facebook Login and granted access to users’ geographic information. But just
one person — with hundreds of friends — allowing access to a personal information through an
app, circa 2014, may have had a much larger impact than it does today.