Abstract. In 2018, it became public knowledge that millions of Facebook users' data had been harvested without their consent. At the heart of the issue was ...
In the 2010s, personal data belonging to millions of Facebook users was collected by British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica for political advertising Aleksandr Kogan (scientist) · Christopher Wylie · The Great Hack
(CA), previously known as SCL USA, was a British political consulting firm that came to prominence through the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
The Federal Trade Commission issued an Opinion finding that the data analytics and consulting company Cambridge Analytica, LLC engaged in deceptive practices.
Revelations that digital consultants to the Trump campaign misused the data of millions of Facebook users set off a furor on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal was amongst one of the most heavily publicised data breaches of 2018 – following the revelation that around 87 ...
Cambridge Analytica spent nearly $1m on data collection, which yielded more than 50 million individual profiles that could be matched to electoral rolls.