Tag: Cambridge

19 MAY

Cambridge Analytica files for bankruptcy amidst “siege” of negative attention

Enlarge / A view of 597 5th Ave, where the New York City office of Cambridge Analytica is on the 7th floor, May 2, 2018 in New York City. (credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Cambridge Analytica LLC, the American arm of the London-based data analytics firm of the same name, filed for bankruptcy in federal court […]

16 MAY

NYT: FBI and DOJ are looking into Cambridge Analytica

Cambridge Analytica already shut down, because it couldn’t cope with ongoing probes and scandals. But that doesn’t mean the DOJ is going to let things go — according to The New York Times, the Justice Department and the FBI have started investigating the political data firm, questioning former employees and banks that handled its businesses […]

03 MAY

Cambridge Analytica shuts down after Facebook user data scandal

Enlarge / Signs for Cambridge Analytica in the lobby of the building in which the firm is based on March 21, 2018 in London. (credit: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Getty Images) Cambridge Analytica, the embattled London-based data analytics firm that famously did work for the Donald Trump presidential campaign, has shut down. According to The Wall Street […]

30 APR

Cambridge Analytica says it did not receive Twitter data from researcher

After a report over the weekend revealed that the researcher accused of giving analytics firm Cambridge Analytica improper access to Facebook user data also had access to data from Twitter’s API, Cambridge Analytica is denying that it worked with the researcher on data obtained from Twitter. Cambridge Analytica tweeted this morning that the firm “has […]

30 APR

Cambridge Analytica says it never got Twitter data from researcher

When word got out that Twitter had sold data access to Aleksandr Kogan, the researcher at the heart of the Cambridge Analytica data sharing scandal, there was a looming question: did he pass that data to Cambridge Analytica? If you ask the company, the answer is an emphatic “no.” In a statement, the firm said […]

17 APR

Cambridge Analytica’s Alexander Nix ducks fake news inquiry… so will Parliament summon him?

The suspended bigwig of notorious data mining firm Cambridge Analytica, Alexander Nix, has ducked the UK government’s fake news inquiry – for now. MPs are faced with the decision whether or not to summon the slippery CEO. Nix had been asked back to the inquiry for a second time to clarify inconsistencies in the evidence […]

13 APR

Another Cambridge Analytica is out there, and we aren’t ready to fight it

GUEST: Facebook got a lot of criticism over the Cambridge Analytica breach, and Zuckerberg vowed to do better in protecting users’ privacy in a full-page ad. But this is not the first time political campaigns have used social media user data during elections — the only difference was that millions of users did not even know the platform…Read […]