Christopher Wylie reveals Cambridge Analytica harvested 87 million Facebook profiles without consent for political manipulation, triggering global privacy crisis
Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica and parent company SCL from its platform following explosive revelations by whistleblower Christopher Wylie about systematic data harvesting affecting 87 million users. The suspension comes only after The Guardian and New York Times publish comprehensive exposés …
Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) Group enters into contract with Aleksandr Kogan’s Global Science Research to acquire Facebook user data for Cambridge Analytica’s political targeting operations. This partnership transforms Kogan’s academic research into a commercial data …
University of Cambridge researcher Aleksandr Kogan develops the “thisisyourdigitallife” personality quiz app through his company Global Science Research, designed to exploit Facebook’s API permissions to harvest user data. The app is marketed as a psychological research tool …
Cambridge University researcher Aleksandr Kogan developed a personality-quiz app that collected data via Facebook’s API and shared it with Cambridge Analytica. Regulators later documented deceptive practices; Facebook estimated up to ~87 million users were affected.