Tag: Cambridge Analytica
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Compromised election: Buhari’s Govt. reacts to Cambridge Analytica revelations
After TheNewsGuru reported the President Muhammadu Buhari administration silence to Cambridge Analytica revelations is alarming, the government has stood up to the occasion requesting the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) to address allegations it actually hired the data analytics firm or not. TheNewsGuru reports data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica and its parent company, SCL Elections, confirmed…
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Cambridge Analytica accepts probe into data practices
Data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica has accepted a probe into how it handled about 50 million data of users on Facebook it obtained from Cambridge University Professor Aleksandr Kogan. Kogan reportedly harvested the Facebook data using a personality quiz app and shared it Cambridge Analytica. Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg had since addressed…
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Israeli govt. probes into Facebook user’s data scandal
Israel’s Justice Ministry said on Thursday that an investigation has been launched into Facebook’s leak of personal information of Israeli users. The ministry said the investigation was opened following media reports that data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica had harvested information about Facebook users. “The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority informed Facebook today, that it had opened an…
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Cambridge Analytica confirms rendering Jonathan services against Buhari – Report
Under-fire data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, has confirmed it had been hired by a Nigerian billionaire, who supported ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, to execute a campaign against Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 general elections. According to a report, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, SCL Elections, made the confirmation it was hired in the wake of…
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Facebook value continues decline as Nix gets suspension, Kogan a scapegoat
Facebook has continued to experience a fall in market value even when data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, accused of breaching privacy policies of users’ data on Facebook has suspended its chief executive, Alexander Nix. Cambridge Analytica suspended after Nix after he confessed in a leaked video that his company had played a decisive role in…