Cambridge Analytica, the data firm the Trump campaign used during the 2016 election, had the private information of more than 50 million people without their permission, The New York Times reported Saturday.
Facebook suspended the firm on Friday for not fully deleting data given to them by Aleksandr Kogan, a University of Cambridge professor.
The 50 million Facebook profiles the firm harvested without permission allowed it to plan techniques for President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, the Times reported.
Kogan obtained the information from his app which used a Facebook login.
Thirty million of the profiles provided by Kogan contained enough information for the firm to create psychographic profiles, according to the Times, which reported that only 270,000 people had given permission for their data to be harvested.
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JUST IN: Trump campaign data firm accessed private data of 50 million people: report https://t.co/fHLR3ICBEu pic.twitter.com/8OK70qD45K
— The Hill (@thehill) March 17, 2018
Two takeaways here:
1. The Mercers are awful
2. If you get your political views from Facebook, you're an idiot https://t.co/6XUmyMmc3r
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 17, 2018
If you're still using FSBook, knowing how they get mega-rich hurting the West & helping Putin, you deserve the pain. https://t.co/OusAnJWiEa
— John Schindler (@20committee) March 17, 2018
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