Thread by @WendySiegelman

This 4/1/18 article is long and well worth the read - a great overview of the Facebook Cambridge Analytica/SCL story, full of new information and details that may have been missed in the flood of news recently, by @pasternack & @joelwinston - thread /1
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In 2014 Aleksander Kogan, the Cambridge University psychology lecturer who was paid by Cambridge Analytica to collect as much Facebook data on as many Americans as possible - did so through a quiz using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) platform /2
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As the data harvest was under way in 2014 Cambridge Univ turned to an external arbitrator to resolve a dispute between Kogan and his colleagues - there was concern about Cambridge Analytica’s interest in licensing the university’s models & Facebook data /3
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Later in December 2015 Amazon would ban Kogan and GSR after a reporter for the Guardian described what was happening. “Our terms of service clearly prohibit misuse,” a spokesperson for Amazon told Fast Company /4
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The article describes the initiative by @profcarroll who filed a claim in the U.K. to obtain all the data Cambridge Analytica has on him and his hope "that Americans will demand strict data regulations that look more like Europe’s" /5
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An important point @profcarroll makes, is separating out the question of whether or not Cambridge Analytica successfully influenced the election, from the issue of the huge invasion of privacy in how CA collected & used massive amounts of personal data /6
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In addition to Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, the Trump campaign used RNC data, which included data on over 200 million people in the U.S. The database scope was revealed when @VickerySec discovered the database on an unlocked Amazon web server /7
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Circling back to the earlier note about how the original Kogan survey was on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform - and how Amazon told FC that they banned Kogan and GSR in December 2015 - here's a small scoop that needs to be looked into... /8
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Alexander Kogan who initially collected the Facebook data for Cambridge Analytica later changed his name to Alexandr Spectre - and he has a new company called Philometrics that creates surveys and analyzes & forecasts results /9

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Here's the U.K. filing for Philometrics Ltd showing Aleksandr Borisovich Spectre as the active CEO appointed on November 15, 2017 /10
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Alexander Kogan/Spectre's new company Philometrics philometrics.com displays MTurk on it's website and says "we make MTurk studies easy. We launch the hits directly from Philometrics and manage all payments to the workers." /11

While Facebook says it banned Cambridge Analytica along with Kogan/Spectr - and Amazon banned Kogan back in December 2015 - why does Kogan/Spectr's new company Philometrics display MTurk on their website? /12
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Wrapping up - the article presents a great overview of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica story and provides a much larger contextual overview of challenges for big and small technology companies and how they collect and use personal data /END
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