The chief executive of Cambridge
Analytica claimed his company ran all the digital operations for the Trump campaign, according to a new report from UK's Channel 4.
The CEO of Cambridge
Analytica claimed his company ran all the digital operations for the Trump campaign, according to a new report from UK's Channel 4.
Not exact matches
Sandberg's post came less than a week after The New York Times and The Observer of London reported that Cambridge
Analytica, a political data
company created by Stephen Bannon and Robert Mercer, gathered users» Facebook data and
claimed it could influence the behavior of American voters.
Cook's and Musk's comments follow The New York Times and The Observer of London's report that Cambridge
Analytica, a political data
company launched by Stephen Bannon and Robert Mercer, collected users» Facebook data and
claimed it could influence the behavior of American voters.
After reports surfaced that Cambridge
Analytica still had that data, the
company claimed it deleted it while suspending then - CEO Nix.
Zuckerberg mentions the «certifications» obtained from Cambridge
Analytica and Kogan in 2015 that they'd deleted the data harvested once Facebook discovered the breach — but also
claims the
company learned only last week that the data hadn't been deleted because of the Times and Guardian reports.
Cambridge
Analytica is a shady
company owned by the British firm SCL Group — and, reportedly, in part by the right - wing - funding Mercer family — which
claimed it could build models that identify persuadable voters by using six key personality types.
Their source is a former contractor for Cambridge
Analytica — not a founder as has been
claimed — who left in 2014 and is misrepresenting himself and the
company throughout his comments.
Because Facebook
claimed that the Cambridge
Analytica incident was not a «data breach» in the legal sense, it has not provided notice to users whose data was accessed; the
company has promised to change that and notify all affected users.
At a London press conference last week, a Cambridge
Analytica spokesman
claimed the
company was «no Bond villain» and had broken no laws.
Mr. Collins, the British lawmaker, said he planned to call Alexander Nix, the chief executive of Cambridge
Analytica, to return to Parliament and answer questions about testimony last month in which he
claimed that the
company never obtained or used Facebook data.
The figures come as both consumers and advertisers are putting Facebook under greater scruntiny, amid
claims the world's largest social network had the data of 50 million users harvested by third - party analytics
company Cambridge
Analytica.
Shortly before the contract began with the parent
company of Cambridge
Analytica, when he was discussing working with the
company, the psychologist tried to acquire medical and genetic records of Americans to combine with troves of online data he
claimed to have obtained.
Cambridge
Analytica used Facebook data it promised Facebook it had deleted, the
company claims.
«Cambridge
Analytica strongly denies the
claims recently made by the New York Times, the Guardian and Channel 4 News,» the
company said on Twitter.
The report, which The Washington Post has not independently confirmed, relied on surreptitious video recordings of Alexander Nix, the chief executive of Cambridge
Analytica,
claiming to have used «a web of shadowy front
companies» in pursuit of winning elections.
... came up with an idea that led to the foundation of a
company called Cambridge
Analytica, a data analytics firm that went on to
claim a major role in the Leave campaign for Britain's EU membership referendum, and later became a key figure in digital operations during Donald Trump's election campaign.
Fan Yuan, the shareholder who filed the suit, accuses Facebook of making «materially false and / or misleading»
claims about the
company's handling of user data — meaning the instances where Facebook or Zuckerberg himself addressed privacy and security issues and failed to disclose the ongoing Cambridge
Analytica fiasco.
Facebook's recent suspension of Cambridge
Analytica, a data analytics firm that played a key role in President Trump's 2016 campaign, highlights the rapid rise of a
company that
claimed it had reached new heights in marrying the art of political persuasion with the science of big data.
Both
companies are under scrutiny following
claims by a whistleblower, Christopher Wylie, who worked with Cambridge
Analytica and alleges it amassed large amounts of data through a personality quiz on Facebook called This is Your Digital Life.
The chief executive of Cambridge
Analytica, Alexander Nix, was immediately suspend after it was revealed that he had
claimed his
company ran all the digital operations for the Trump campaign.
Cambridge
Analytica, however, has
claimed that the reporters tricked the
company, and that it never had any intention of carrying out the scenarios discussed.
It also
claimed that a Cambridge
Analytica executive told the undercover reporters, «We're not in the business of fake news, we're not in the business of lying, making stuff up, and we're not in the business of entrapment... There are
companies that do this but to me that crosses a line.»
Watts then pointed to embroiled data firm Cambridge
Analytica CEO Alexander Nix, whose CEO
claimed in hidden camera footage that the
company could use Ukrainian sex workers to entrap politicians.
Jessi Hempel, Wired senior writer, and James Cakmak, Monness Crespi, Hardt &
Company stock analyst, provide insight to Facebook's challenges after
claims Cambridge
Analytica improperly gained access to user data.
Their source is a former contractor for Cambridge
Analytica — not a founder as has been
claimed — who left in 2014 and is misrepresenting himself and the
company throughout his comments.
It has also denied reports published over the weekend that it harvested the data wrongly, and called Wylie «a former contractor for Cambridge
Analytica — not a founder as has been
claimed — who left in 2014 and is misrepresenting himself and the
company throughout his comments.»
The firm worked on Facebook ads with President Donald Trump's campaign in 2016, but the data allegedly held by Cambridge
Analytica was not used in the 2016 Trump presidential election campaign, the
company claims.
Cambridge
Analytica claims on its website that it's able create psychological profiles to «effectively engage and persuade voters using specially tailored language and visual ad combinations» that appeal to each person on an emotional level,» and that the
company has «up to 5,000 data points on over 230 million American voters.»
Facebook's recent suspension of Cambridge
Analytica, a data analytics firm that played a key role in President Trump's 2016 campaign, highlights the rapid rise of a
company that
claimed it had reached new heights in marrying the art of political persuasion with the science of big data.
Part of the work that Cambridge
Analytica performed for Bolton's super PAC was psychographic voter targeting, which the
company claimed could profile voters on the basis of certain characteristics.
Cambridge
Analytica CEO Alexander Nix
claimed his
company ran all the data and digital operations for the Trump campaign, according to a new report from Channel 4 in the U.K.
Additionally, a new report from Channel 4 in the U.K. shows Cambridge
Analytica CEO Alexander Nix
claiming his
company ran all the digital operations for the Trump campaign.
Channel 4 says it has seen documents that it
claims show multiple ties between AIQ and Cambridge
Analytica's parent
company, SCL.
On the flip side, for Cambridge
Analytica or any
company today, it's not enough to just throw - up and
claim plausible deniability.
«Cambridge
Analytica strongly denies the
claims recently made by the New York Times, the Guardian and Channel 4 News,» the
company said on Twitter.
Months after Bannon
claimed to have severed ties with the
company, checks from the Trump campaign for Cambridge
Analytica's services continued to show up at one of Bannon's addresses in Los Angeles.
Illinois» Cook County, which includes Chicago and surrounding areas, is joining the legal fight against Facebook and Cambridge
Analytica over the misuse of data scraped from social media profiles,
claiming that both
companies violated state fraud law.
Those include a suit from a Facebook shareholder who is seeking class - action status,
claiming he and other
company shareholders have suffered losses and damages since the Cambridge
Analytica news was first reported, and another from a woman seeking class - action status over Facebook and Cambridge
Analytica's alleged improper data collection.
Fan Yuan, the shareholder who filed the suit, accuses Facebook of making «materially false and / or misleading»
claims about the
company's handling of user data — meaning the instances where Facebook or Zuckerberg himself addressed privacy and security issues and failed to disclose the ongoing Cambridge
Analytica fiasco.
Cambridge
Analytica used Facebook data it promised Facebook it had deleted, the
company claims.
But that
claim is contradicted by a detailed description of the
company's role in the 2016 election given in May by a senior Cambridge
Analytica executive.
But they're not the only people
claiming that Cambridge
Analytica and its parent
company, the SCL Group, has been operating with little restraint in countries that have fewer (or no) regulations or laws governing the collection and use of data about citizens.
A Cambridge
Analytica spokesman refuted all of Wylie's
claims, calling his decision to speak to the media «a malicious attempt to hurt the
company.»
Whatever the truth of Cambridge
Analytica's
claims, the very existence of such
companies tells us something important about the weight that unconscious influence, relative to reasoned argument, now plays in political campaigns.
Cambridge
Analytica used its own database and voter information collected from Facebook and news publishers in its effort to help elect Donald Trump, despite a
claim by a top campaign official who has downplayed the
company's role in the election.
Shortly before the contract began with the parent
company of Cambridge
Analytica, when he was discussing working with the
company, the psychologist tried to acquire medical and genetic records of Americans to combine with troves of online data he
claimed to have obtained.
Facebook will pay for a forensic audit of Cambridge
Analytica's systems over alleged misuse of social networking data, amid a new report that
claims executives at the data
company used shady business practices.
Facebook's recent suspension of Cambridge
Analytica, a data analytics firm that played a key role in President Trump's 2016 campaign, highlights the rapid rise of a
company that
claimed it had reached new heights in marrying the art of political persuasion with the science of big data.
Facebook's suspension of Cambridge
Analytica comes on the same day David Carroll, a professor at New York's Parsons School of Design, filed a legal
claim in the UK against the
company for its use of his personal data.