Tag: GSR

  • Cambridge Analytica: Facebook material might still be on SCL servers

    Cambridge Analytica: Facebook material might still be on SCL servers

    An independent investigation into the Cambridge Analytica (CA) data privacy scandal has published report affirming that some traces of metadata from Facebook material (actual or historic) might still, in some form, be on SCL Elections servers. The report, however, revealed that data analytics firm, CA, an offspring of SCL Elections, had destroyed the Facebook users…

  • Breaking: Cambridge Analytica shuts down operations

    Breaking: Cambridge Analytica shuts down operations

    SCL Elections and its offspring data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytic (CA), have filed applications to commence insolvency proceedings in the United Kingdom that will also affect operations of certain SCL affiliates. TheNewsGuru reports the Company is immediately ceasing all operations and the boards have applied to appoint insolvency practitioners Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP to act…

  • Cambridge Analytica: Finally investigation unravels data size mystery

    The report of an independent investigation to unravel the mystery behind data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica (CA), harvesting over 87 million Facebook users data have been made public. The investigation reveals SCL Elections, parent company of CA entered into two contract agreements with Cambridge University Professor Aleksandr Kogan’s firm, Global Science Research (“GSR”) that developed…

  • Cambridge Analytica: Twitter involvement comes to light

    After the Facebook data scandal, it has now come to notice that Twitter had also sold data access to a Cambridge Analytica researcher who gathered the data of nearly 87 million Facebook users without their knowledge, The Sunday Telegraph reported. According to the report, Twitter sold public data access in 2015 to Aleksandr Kogan, then…