Another case in point. Note that they don't even _try_ to avoid looking like Bond villains. Pity that Japanese volcano used as the supposed location of SPECTRE headquarters in 'You Only Live Twice' just blew up, or they could have moved there. ----- Forwarded message from Ben Avery <bavery715@gmail.com> ----- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:53:21 -0400 From: Ben Avery <bavery715@gmail.com> To: skeptic@linuxmafia.com Subject: [skeptic] Cambridge Analytica Suspended From Facebook Facebook has suspended Cambridge Analytica (the Trump campaign's data firm) and its parent Strategic Communication Laboratories because they acquired user data in way that violated Facebook's terms of service (and likely violated British privacy law) https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/03/suspending-cambridge-analytica/ Facebook is trying really hard to minimize this. While the release says 270,000 people used the app, data of friends of those people was also acquired so the number affected is likely in the hundreds of millions. When Facebook found out that CA/SCL had this data they asked for certificate of destruction...and that was the entirety of follow-up until they recently heard the data wasn't destroyed. The guy who created the app us to get the data is one Dr. Aleksandr Kogan, who is a Russia/American dual national who in addition to a postion at Cambridge University is also a professor at St. Petersburg University. He also, I kid you not, changed his name to Dr. Spectre for a while. https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/ak823%40cam.ac.uk The New York Times has more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/politics/cambridge-analytica-trump-cam... The Guardian has a profile on Christopher Wylie, the data nerd who helped built CA and now regrets it: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christop... -- Ben Avery bavery715@gmail.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> _______________________________________________ skeptic mailing list skeptic@linuxmafia.com http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/skeptic To reach the listadmin, mail rick@linuxmafia.com ----- End forwarded message -----