The analytics company Cambridge Analytica which used Facebook data to target voters for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in the 2016 and affected tens of millions people, is on investigation for a vast data obstruction.
Report says, U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign hired a data-analytics company that harvested private information from the Facebook profiles of more than 50 million users, without their permission and used to build a system that may have influenced voters.
Wylie, a 28-year-old from British Columbia, is the data scientist who spoke out about controversy. He’s also the man who helped found Cambridge Analytica.
He said, “I do feel responsible for it and it’s something that I regret. It was a grossly unethical experiment because you are playing with an entire country, the psychology of an entire country, without their consent or awareness.”
Facebook announced late Friday that it had suspended the account of Strategic Communication Laboratories, and its political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica. In a statement released by Paul Grewal, the company’s vice president and deputy general counsel, Facebook explained that the suspension was the result of a violation of its platform policies.
Facebook explained that Cambridge Analytica had years ago received user data from a Facebook app that purported to be a psychological research tool, though the firm was not authorized to have the information. Roughly 270,000 people downloaded and shared personal details with the app.
Collins, the chair of the Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee, will also call on Zuckerberg to testify. He said the company appeared to have previously sent executives who were able to avoid difficult questions and who “claimed not to know the answers”.
Collins attacked Facebook for appearing to have been “deliberately avoiding answering straight questions”. “It is now clear that data has been taken from Facebook users without their consent, and was then processed by a third party and used to support their campaigns,” Collins said. “Facebook knew about this, and the involvement of Cambridge Analytica with it.”
>Juthy Saha
Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Under Huge Pressure over Data Scandal
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