Facebook / Mark Zuckerberg
Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy, improperly obtained data from up to 87 million Facebook users without consent and used it for psychological profiling to influence voters in the 2016 US presidential election and Brexit referendum. Facebook itself enabled identical data access to thousands of apps before 2015—the controversy centered on Cambridge Analytica's failure to delete data, not the harvesting itself.
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Facebook / Mark Zuckerberg is documented in the evidence record of this published dossier.
Co-documented with Facebook / Mark Zuckerberg in 1 published dossier, including “Cambridge Analytica Scandal”.
Co-documented with Facebook / Mark Zuckerberg in 1 published dossier, including “Cambridge Analytica Scandal”.