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💥 Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach - Whistleblower describes how firm linked to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon compiled user data to target American voters - by @carolecadwalla @_EmmaGH theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
yesterday FB threatened to sue over the story
The app developed by Aleksandr Kogan's company Global Science Research (GSR) with Cambridge Analytica, collected data on hundreds of thousands of people - but then also collected data on millions of their friends, in ways not allowed by Facebook policy
theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
Facebook sent a letter to Christopher Wylie in August 2016 (before Bannon took over as Trump campaign mgr) asking Wylie to destroy any data he held that had been collected by Kogan's company GSR - FB barely followed up & didn't inform regulators or FB users about the breach
How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions nyti.ms/2GDEAE0
SCL and Cambridge Analytica Companies & Shareholders, chart @annmarlowe and I created
medium.com/@wsiegelman/sc…
How Cambridge Analytica turned Facebook ‘likes’ into a lucrative political tool theguardian.com/technology/201…
created a petition for Facebook to notify users who had data stolen by Cambridge Analytica
is pursuing a crowd-funded legal case to try to get personal data back from SCL Group Ltd, the parent of Cambridge Analytica
Important detail in this March 2017 Intercept article on Facebook harvesting data on 30 million people - the co-founder of Global Science Research with Kogan was Joseph Chancellor - who now works for Facebook
theintercept.com/2017/03/30/fac…
The July 12 2016 annual return for Global Science Research lists 4 shareholders:
- Aleksandr Spectre (500 shares)
- Joseph Andrew Chancellor (149 shares)
- Alexander Slinger (500 shares)
- Chao-Chun Wei (351 shares)
@carolecadwalla beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/090607…
Alexander Kogan/Spectre who created Global Science Research and provided Facebook data to SCL/Cambridge Analytica, is now CEO of a company called Philometrics, incorporated in the UK in October 2017
beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/110130…
Here is Alexandre Spectre's company Philometrics, which helps clients create surveys and analyze & forecast results
philometrics.com
Alexandre Spectre Youtube video discussing his company Philometrics
Philometrics, where Alexandre Spectre is now CEO, was originally founded by Alexander Slinger (co-founder with Spectre of Global Science Research Ltd, which provided FB data to Cambridge Analytica)
crunchbase.com/organization/p…
In this video, Spectre discusses how his firm Philometrics worked with a data set of 50,000 people to predict results for larger groups of people and Spectre discusses working with the firm Meltwater
Here's job posting on Alex Spectre's Philometrics website about a contract with Meltwater to build apps on their platform, including a current project for a "cryptocurrency app which integrates large amounts of social media and news data with data science"
angel.co/philometrics/j…
An interesting detail in the NYT article - the lawyer advising Cambridge Analytica, Laurence Levy, worked at the time for Bracewell & Giuliani - and Levy is one of the lawyers that later in 2016 followed Giuliani to Greenberg Traurig
nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/…
Channel 4 News - Cambridge Analytica: Whistleblower Chris Wylie reveals data grab of 50 million Facebook profiles
The Guardian - Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Chris Wylie: 'We spent $1m harvesting millions of Facebook profiles'
Another amazing piece of the story, a profile by @carolecadwalla of the year-long Cambridge Analytica & FB story with Chris Wylie
Cambridge Analytica created a pitch for Russia's 2nd biggest oil co Lukoil & CEO Vagit Alekperov, a former Soviet oil minister & assoc of Putin - while no evidence CA did business w/Lukoil they were briefed on FB, microtargeting, data & election disruption
theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
An important point from @d1gi that today's news is only part of the story - the other part is how Cambridge Analytica merged Facebook info with other data and distribution channels
Here's an important article by @annmarlowe on how Cambridge Analytica partnered with ComScore, Rentrack & Dish to target TV viewers in 2016 - Trump’s Data Gurus Are Now Turning Their Attention To Your TV fastcompany.com/40477438/cambr…
Cambridge Analytica: links to Moscow oil firm and St Petersburg university
theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
Staff claim Cambridge Analytica ignored US ban on foreigners working on elections theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/m…
Data Firm Tied to Trump Campaign Talked Business w/Russians
- Cambridge Analytica included extensive questions about Putin in surveys with American focus groups in 2014
- On 2 promotional docs obtained by NYT, SCL said it did business in Russia
nyti.ms/2GDVFxp
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50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica. Psych prof/developer Aleksandr Kogan accessed 270k FB users' data w his app, then collected their friends' data…& sold it all to Trump's data firm which used it to target ads in 2016 election theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
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