The data scientist behind the Cambridge Analytica scandal fires back at Facebook

The scapegoat in Facebook’s ongoing data privacy scandal is firing back at the social media giant.

Aleksandr Kogan, the relatively unknown scientist who was paid by Cambridge Analytica for data he harvested from more than 87 million Facebook users, is speaking out in a series of interviews, where he explains that he was not a rogue app developer as Facebook has frequently implied, and that the problem could be much bigger than most people realize.

Across several interviews over the weekend, Kogan has made a couple of things very clear: He wasn’t the only developer harvesting and sharing data without the direct consent of users, and Facebook knew exactly what he was doing for years before it acted. Read more…

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