Aleksandr Kogan creates 'This Is Your Digital Life' Facebook app; data later used by Cambridge Analytica

| Importance: 8/10 | Status: confirmed

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.

Key Actors

Aleksandr Kogan Facebook Cambridge Analytica Global Science Research

Tags

data-harvesting cambridge-analytica privacy-violation election-interference

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