Sunday, March 18, 2018

Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach | News | The Guardian

Whistleblower describes how firm linked to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon compiled user data to target American voters...

Christopher Wylie, who worked for data firm Cambridge Analytica, reveals how personal information was taken without authorisation in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters in order to target them with personalised political advertisements. At the time the company was owned by the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, and headed at the time by Donald Trump’s key adviser, Steve Bannon. Its CEO is Alexander Nix How Cambridge Analytica turned Facebook ‘likes’ into a lucrative political tool...
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election
Interview:
https://youtu.be/FXdYSQ6nu-M

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