Ido Kilovaty Contributor Ido Kilovaty is a Cyber Fellow at the Center for Global Legal Challenges and Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project, Yale Law School. More posts by this contributor If it talks like a government and acts like a government, it must be a tech giant On March 16, we learned that […]
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Trump campaign-linked data firm Cambirdge Analytica reportedly collected info on 50M Facebook profiles
Facebook said on Thursday it had suspended a data analytics firm associated with the Trump 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. Aleksandr Kogan, […]
View More Trump campaign-linked data firm Cambirdge Analytica reportedly collected info on 50M Facebook profilesWhistleblower’s story explains why Facebook booted a Trump-linked data firm
Now we know why Facebook gave Cambridge Analytica the boot on Friday. What’s less clear is why it took so long.
The social media company was aware as far back as late 2015 that, starting in early 2014, the Trump-linked U.K data firm had secretly harv…
Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica, the data analysis firm that worked for the Trump campaign
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 explained […]
View More Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica, the data analysis firm that worked for the Trump campaignUK watchdog wants disclosure rules for political ads on social media
The UK’s data protection agency will push for increased transparency into how personal data flows between digital platforms to ensure people being targeted for political advertising are able to understand why and how it is happening. Read More
The CEO of Cambridge Analytica plans a book on its methods, and the US election
Alexander Nix, the CEO of Cambridge Analytica (CA) plans to publish a book on his firm’s approach to online campaigning, and it’s role in the US election. In an exclusive interview with TechCrunch he says the book will “talk about our methodology and our approach to communications” in technical terms, and go into how the firm is using psychographics in its campaigns… Read More
Cambridge Analytica CEO talks to TechCrunch about Trump, Hilary and the future
Mike Butcher (MB): You think that digital advertising agencies have ‘got it coming’, such as the WPPs of this world. What do you mean by that? Alexander Nix (Nix): Actually probably not digital advertising agencies because they’re more progressive. I’m really looking it at the old school traditional creative-led agencies. [For example] within WPP obviously… Read More