On Friday, Facebook announced that it had suspended Cambridge Analytica, suggesting the firm had not been honest about deleting user data sent to it by the makers of a popular
psychology test app.
Facebook has suspended Cambridge Analytica, a political data analytics firm that worked on Facebook ads for President Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election, saying that it lied about deleting user data sent to it by the makers of a popular
psychology test app.
Not exact matches
MindAid is a new
app from the Department of
Psychology, Royal Holloway and the Children and Young People, Increasing Acess to Psychological Therapies Learning Collaborative that is currently being
tested in schools in London.
Reports emerged over the weekend in the Observer and The New York Times that Aleksandr Kogan, a lecturer in the
psychology department at Cambridge University, created a personality
test app that he used to amass personal data for Facebook users, as well as their friends, in part via a Facebook API, in apparent compliance with Facebook's terms of service for academic researchers.