Sentences with phrase «shady election data»

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UK authorities with the Information Commissioner's Office raided the offices of Cambridge Analytica, a shady election - data firm that allegedly partnered with an app to take advantage of mile - wide loopholes in Facebook policies and run off with 50 million users» data, on Friday.

The shady analytics firm is believed to have gained access to personal data from around 50 million of Facebook's users, which it employed to inform online ad spending and influence elections.

UK authorities with the Information Commissioner's Office raided the offices of Cambridge Analytica, a shady election - data firm that allegedly partnered with an app to take advantage of mile - wide loopholes in Facebook policies and run off with 50 million users» data, on Friday.

The shady analytics firm is believed to have gained access to personal data from around 50 million of Facebook's users, which it employed to inform online ad spending and influence elections.

There have been dozens of examples over the company's long history, but the most recent may be the most scandalous: A shady firm of «political consultants» secretly harvested data belonging to as many as 87 million Facebook users without their knowledge, and then used that data to influence the 2016 presidential election.