What did Cambridge
Analytica do with all the data?
In February, Simon Milner, Facebook's U.K. head of policy at the time, told officials that Cambridge
Analytica did not have any Facebook data.
We have a responsibility to make sure what happened with Kogan and Cambridge Analytica doesn't happen again.
But reached by Business Insider on Tuesday, Shumaker said Cambridge
Analytica did not play a major role in the campaign.
Tyler, the Cruz spokesman, said Cambridge
Analytica did not work on television advertising for the campaign.
«The closing of Cambridge Analytica doesn't stop the problem that voters and consumers face in terms of a growing loss of privacy and a gross misuse of their data,» said Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy.»
The fact that it wasn't suggests that in the beginning, at least, the exploitability of Facebook's API was seen as a feature, not a bug — because no one was thinking that a third - party app might utilize its access to user data at the scale Cambridge
Analytica did.
Just as with other recent large - scale data manipulations, from the recent Strava app fiasco to the widescale distribution and spread of fake news on social media, Cambridge Analytica didn't «hack» our internet usage and our Facebook information so much as exploit the way the system was naturally designed to work.
Repugnant as its methods were, Cambridge
Analytica did not create this crisis on its own.
Cambridge
Analytica did not use bots.
All of the steps that Facebook is taking now to «make sure what happened with Kogan and Cambridge Analytica doesn't happen again» only achieve one thing — consolidating Facebook's control over the user data that it can make available to its customers.
So in that sense Facebook is entirely right; technically what Cambridge
Analytica did wasn't a breach at all.
In a statement after the German publication of this article, a Cambridge Analytica spokesperson said, «Cambridge
Analytica does not use data from Facebook.
Cambridge
Analytica did not engage in efforts to discourage any Americans from casting their vote in the presidential election.
«I must emphatically state that Cambridge
Analytica does not condone or engage in entrapment, bribes or so - called «honeytraps», and nor does it use untrue material for any purposes.»
Cambridge
Analytica did not do social media work for the party, said Woodhouse, who was hired as state executive director in September 2015.
To help fix what has been broken — Facebook's famous former motto was «move fast and break things» — Zuckerberg announced earlier today that Facebook will start to investigate if other developers abused its policies in the same way Cambridge
Analytica did.
Facebook issued a statement Saturday underscoring that its policies now prevent a repeat of what Kogan and Cambridge
Analytica did.
But the problem here is that Cambridge
Analytica did not just employ sophisticated mass marketing, it went the whole hog and ran very specific targeted marketing campaigns for Trump while an allegedly linked Canadian company used the same technology on behalf of the Vote Leave campaign during the EU Referendum.
The story has been corrected to specify that it was Denham's office, rather than Denham herself, that said Cambridge
Analytica did not meet a deadline.
Wylie said he complied with that request, though he does not know if Kogan or Cambridge
Analytica did.
Cambridge
Analytica did provide polling, data analytics and digital marketing for the Trump campaign.
Cambridge
Analytica did not work at all on the Brexit Referendum.
Cambridge
Analytica did not «hack» Facebook.
The Information Commissioner's Office said it was seeking a warrant because Cambridge
Analytica did not respond to its 7 March request to access records and data it held.
«I must emphatically state that Cambridge
Analytica does not condone or engage in entrapment, bribes or so - called «honey traps», and nor does it use untrue material for any purpose,» said Mr Nix.
Whatever you think of the result, whatever side you were on, the noise about data mining for political purposes, unease about what was being done behind the scenes by all politicians, it has raised questions again about whether Cambridge
Analytica did any work for Vote Leave.
Tyler, the Cruz spokesman, said Cambridge
Analytica did not work on television advertising for the campaign.
In a later clarification, Cambridge
Analytica did admit that it had licensed data from the firm set up by Dr Kogan, although denied that the information was used in the US elections.
Cambridge
Analytica did not respond to questions from the Center for Public Integrity.
Alexander Nix told Parliament in recent hearings that Cambridge
Analytica did not have any relationship with Russia or Russian companies.
«With respect to any allegations of impropriety, the John Bolton Super PAC was completely unaware of anything Cambridge
Analytica did until recent press reports,» he said in a statement, adding that the super PAC has not worked with the data - science firm since 2016.
Wylie said he complied with that request, though he does not know if Kogan or Cambridge
Analytica did.
Of course, Cambridge Analytica doesn't care at all about Facebook users» personalities.
«Cambridge
Analytica does not comment on specific clients or projects,» she added when asked whether the company was involved with Global Science Research's work in 2014 and 2015.
When lawmakers are dependent on the whims of those who abuse power, as Facebook and Cambridge
Analytica did, who controls the outer order, the laws, and the direction of the country?
Cambridge
Analytica did not provide comment for this story by press time.
To help fix what has been broken — Facebook's famous former motto was «move fast and break things» — Zuckerberg announced earlier today that Facebook will start to investigate if other developers abused its policies in the same way Cambridge
Analytica did.
«I must emphatically state that Cambridge
Analytica does not condone or engage in entrapment, bribes or so - called «honeytraps», and nor does it use untrue material for any purpose.
Facebook said it could not comment immediately on the lawsuit, and Cambridge
Analytica did not respond to requests for comment.
Last month, Facebook's UK director of policy, Simon Milner, told British MPs on a select committee inquiry into fake news, chaired by Conservative MP Damian Collins, that Cambridge
Analytica did not have Facebook data.
Nix had repeatedly insisted that Cambridge
Analytica did no paid or unpaid work related to the Brexit campaign, which ended in the UK's (almost certainly disastrous) decision to leave the European Union.
Cambridge
Analytica did not respond to requests for comment Monday.
«I must emphatically state that Cambridge
Analytica does not condone or engage in entrapment, bribes or so - called «honey traps», and nor does it use untrue material for any purpose,» said Mr Nix.
The people who downloaded the app used by Cambridge
Analytica did not know their data would be used to aid any political campaigns.
«I am aware how this looks... I must emphatically state that Cambridge
Analytica does not condone or engage in entrapment, bribes or so - called «honeytraps,» and nor does it use untrue material for any purpose,» he said.
I must emphatically state that Cambridge
Analytica does not condone or engage in entrapment, bribes or so - called «honeytraps», and nor does it use untrue material for any purpose,» Nix said.
We know that data obtained by a researcher was improperly shared with political consultants and that Cambridge
Analytica did not delete the data upon Facebook's request, but there's a whole lot we don't know for sure.
Facebook and Cambridge
Analytica did not immediately respond on Wednesday to requests for comment.
Grewal wrote that Facebook had reason to believe Cambridge Analytica didn't delete data it obtained from users years ago without their explicit consent.