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 …
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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 …
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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.
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